The Art of Mutilation

Artist Said Elatab writes: My new painting called “The Mutilated and Dismembered”.

Genocide continues in Gaza by an evil power. Thousands of civilians have had their limbs blown off by missiles. I found this worse than dying because imagine you’re unable to walk and you can’t do nothing to help others or even yourself. You would’ve wish you were dead. This is a fate worse than death, constantly reminded what has been done and take from you.

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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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