Union Magazine’s representation and preservation of Palestinian artists serves as a beacon of resistance through art. It acknowledges art as one of the most potent forms of expression when words fail. Stories Emile Saba Ashtar Theatre Ashtar’s work extends beyond theatre productions. Our involvement in the society and in different communities is vital to our existence and continuation. Solénne Tadros PRE-EXODUS, 2018 The reason I focused on the bedroom is to show others that behind the word ‘refugee’ is a person and a life. My grandmother and her sister had a childhood just like you, just like me. Mirna Bamieh Mirna Bamieh My responsibility towards myself as a creator is to give voice to all parts of me, as the individual and as the extended collective that inhabits me and my experience. Sanabel Abdelrahman Hope is Magical Palestinians are imagining and constructing liberated futures in the present, a superhuman effort and faith, as well as a collective firm belief in the hopeful and liberated futures that await them in a free Palestine Larissa Sansour Larissa Sansour In my latest film, I question the true value of memory, and how much of our memories are our own and how much are stories told to us. How much of our narrative is based on fiction and how much on reality, and where does the line lie between individual, collective, and state memories? Yehia Moldan The Front Line It’s a shame that such an innocent creature as language can be used to kill facts, fake history, and support ethnic cleansing. This work is an attempt to save the Hebrew alphabet from Zionism. Taha Afefe Haifa Started from Here, 2023 Art and identity cannot be separated from the reality the artist experiences. Identity is challenged by this reality, so is art. If artists lose track of their identity, they may be searching for it forever. Essa Grayeb Sun Pictures, 2020 The same trajectory that has been interrupted can still exist, even symbolically, by the movement of these objects, which reach the shores of Palestine without any restrictions, interruptions or interrogations. Amer Shomali Broken Weddings, 2018 Broken weddings, like witnesses of the possibilities of lives amputated in 1948. Areej Kaoud Anxiety, 2017 I’m always in a state in which I’m preparing for the worst. I am anticipating finding myself in a state of numbness, freezing. This is why I’m so fascinated by safety provisions. Barbara Debeuckelaere and many women of Tel Rumeida, Hebron Omm, Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 2023 My presence, just like that of many other Western photographers, video makers, activists and journalists, is vital to making the world aware and protecting the people who suffer under this system of apartheid. Hazem Harb Hazem Harb When other avenues of resistance can be suppressed, art stands as a vital means of expression and defiance. The systematic suppression of Palestinian voices, whether through the destruction of olive trees or the rewriting of histories, fuels my art as a form of resistance. Mahdi Baraghithi How to Survive Europe, 2017 My work focuses on deconstructing the representation and construction of masculinity in Arab societies more widely, and more specifically in the Palestinian context.
Emile Saba Ashtar Theatre Ashtar’s work extends beyond theatre productions. Our involvement in the society and in different communities is vital to our existence and continuation.
Solénne Tadros PRE-EXODUS, 2018 The reason I focused on the bedroom is to show others that behind the word ‘refugee’ is a person and a life. My grandmother and her sister had a childhood just like you, just like me.
Mirna Bamieh Mirna Bamieh My responsibility towards myself as a creator is to give voice to all parts of me, as the individual and as the extended collective that inhabits me and my experience.
Sanabel Abdelrahman Hope is Magical Palestinians are imagining and constructing liberated futures in the present, a superhuman effort and faith, as well as a collective firm belief in the hopeful and liberated futures that await them in a free Palestine
Larissa Sansour Larissa Sansour In my latest film, I question the true value of memory, and how much of our memories are our own and how much are stories told to us. How much of our narrative is based on fiction and how much on reality, and where does the line lie between individual, collective, and state memories?
Yehia Moldan The Front Line It’s a shame that such an innocent creature as language can be used to kill facts, fake history, and support ethnic cleansing. This work is an attempt to save the Hebrew alphabet from Zionism.
Taha Afefe Haifa Started from Here, 2023 Art and identity cannot be separated from the reality the artist experiences. Identity is challenged by this reality, so is art. If artists lose track of their identity, they may be searching for it forever.
Essa Grayeb Sun Pictures, 2020 The same trajectory that has been interrupted can still exist, even symbolically, by the movement of these objects, which reach the shores of Palestine without any restrictions, interruptions or interrogations.
Amer Shomali Broken Weddings, 2018 Broken weddings, like witnesses of the possibilities of lives amputated in 1948.
Areej Kaoud Anxiety, 2017 I’m always in a state in which I’m preparing for the worst. I am anticipating finding myself in a state of numbness, freezing. This is why I’m so fascinated by safety provisions.
Barbara Debeuckelaere and many women of Tel Rumeida, Hebron Omm, Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 2023 My presence, just like that of many other Western photographers, video makers, activists and journalists, is vital to making the world aware and protecting the people who suffer under this system of apartheid.
Hazem Harb Hazem Harb When other avenues of resistance can be suppressed, art stands as a vital means of expression and defiance. The systematic suppression of Palestinian voices, whether through the destruction of olive trees or the rewriting of histories, fuels my art as a form of resistance.
Mahdi Baraghithi How to Survive Europe, 2017 My work focuses on deconstructing the representation and construction of masculinity in Arab societies more widely, and more specifically in the Palestinian context.
