Ten Years Since the Palestinian Revolution

A painting by the Jordanian artist Mona Saudi (1945-February 16, 2022), who joined the Palestinian revolution and headed the Fine Arts Department of the PLO’s Unified Media Office in the 1970s.

She was accused of attempting to assassinate former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1969.

Saudi worked to teach art to children in the Baqa’a refugee camp in Jordan in the late 1960s, and published their drawings in the “Children’s Testimony in Wartime” book that was published in 1970. She also contributed to organizing the International Art Exhibition for Palestine and participated in…

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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