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Photographs of Daily Life in the Palestinian Markets
Reclaiming the Commons Photographing Daily Life in Palestine’s Historic Markets
Journey of a Disappearance: A Donkey, a Lane, a Tale
SouqStories at Michigan: Gaza Lives: Resisting Death in Gaza.
Photographs of Daily Life in the Palestinian Markets
Reclaiming the Commons Photographing Daily Life in Palestine’s Historic Markets
Journey of a Disappearance :A Donkey, a Lane, a Tale
SouqStories at Michigan: Gaza Lives: Resisting Death in Gaza.
The SouqStories Exhibition was set up as a multi-sited youth-led photographic exhibition of daily life in the seven historic Palestinian markets of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Hebron, Acre, Gaza, Nablus and Jaffa, displayed simultaneously within the public spaces of those seven markets. The exhibition ran for seven days in June of 2021 and included more than a hundred cultural and artistic activities, seminars, walking tours, and performances. This exhibition grew out of close coordination among young men and women volunteers, youth movements, popular institutions in the various cities, and young photographers and art curators.The project was supported by Ta’awon for Youth Foundation, the DROSOS Foundation, Yan P. Lin Center, and the Nakba Archive at McGill University.
In March of 2022, the Souq Stories team curated a new incarnation of its initial June 2021 exhibition, titled: “Souq Stories: Reclaiming the Commons,” at McGill University, which opened its doors to the public for three weeks. The exhibit was co-sponsored by McGill’s Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology at the Yan P. Lin Centre, the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, and McGill’s Refugee Research Group. Read more.
Text: Excerpt about the project.The project aimed to celebrate the heritage of the city of Nazareth, its old city markets by tracing the donkey's footsteps, and the narratives, stories, and architectural aesthetics of Nazareth.
Text: Excerpt about the network of the project.
Text: Excerpt about the exhibition.A Path in the Market's Memory is a research art exhibition that comes within the project "A Journey of Disappearance". It focuses on the archival dimension of narratives by adapting oral memory as a base for the photographs and artistic pieces in order to preserve it and present it as a local source of knowledge for the various aspects of Palestinian life, before it is affected by colonial distortion and pollution.
Text:Excerpt about the exhibition. By evoking this exhibition in Kafr Aqab, we express the spatial extension of memory to include the broader Palestinian landscape, highlighting the settler colonial strategies in planning, the two towns are subject to and the erasure, constriction and suffocation.
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