CROSSFIREARABIA – This painting on the Women of Jerusalem was painted this year, 2026 by Rawan Al Anani. Its made in bright, vivacious colors of women in embroidered dresses. Some are sitting sipping tea at a leisurely pace while others attending the olive tree. All this against a Jerusalem background of homes, mosques and churches which speaks of a rich Palestinian community and a society. The details in the brush stroke speaks of a diversified but integrated.
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His eyes held the wrinkles of a lifetime, like the marks of a plow in the clay of Galilee, and his hands were rough yet gentle, like the skin of an ancient olive tree, unshaken by the wind.
He never left this land, not for a moment. He wakes with the first light of dawn to greet the earth and call to it by the names of his ancestors. He waters these seedlings with the sweat of his brow, giving them a little of his life every day. For him, the land isn’t just a handful of mud; it’s his honor, his dignity, his entire life. And when time tried to bargain with him over his land, he stood firm like an oak; he sacrificed comfort and sleep, refusing to give up an inch, even if it meant his neck.
I walk among the olive trees like someone who fears for his children, knowing that the land does not betray the one who loves it, and that the blood he waters it with will return to bear the fruit of freedom. Everyone will die, and this farmer will remain a story: a man who loved his land to death, so it became his soul.
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CROSSFIREARABIA – Today, Palestinians and the Arab world remembers political cartoonist Naji Al Ali. It has been exactly 39 years since his assassination. He died on 29 August, 1987 in Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was shot and mortally wounded on 22 July of that year as he walked down Ives Street in Chelsea by an identified gunmen. Al Ali subsequently fell into a coma and died a month later. In his life-time Al Ali was said to have drawn at least 40,000 cartoons.
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