EXHIBIT: "Palestine Lost," Artwork by Rajie Cook and Helen Zughaib

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery presents

Palestine Lost
Stereopticon Images of Palestine from the Early 1900's
Stereopticon images, or lantern slides, became popular in the late 1800’s as a way for armchair travelers to experience faraway places. Viewed through an image merging device, the dual photographs become three-dimensional, resulting in a realistic, you are there feeling. The Jerusalem Fund Gallery showcases 45 rare images of a Palestine that has been mostly erased from view, a Palestine of people, farms, homes and life that for a large part only exists in these images and in memory.

To complement these images, we showcase the moving artwork of Rajie Cook and Helen Zughaib, both with the theme of keys to Palestinian family homes now vanished. Keys, that are the only tangible symbol remaining of a very personal Palestine Lost.

This exhibit will be on display at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery from 10 September - 13 November 2009

Gallery hours: M - F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., or by appointment

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The Jerusalem Fund Gallery

The Jerusalem Fund's cultural program promotes the work of artists from Palestine as well as from the Arab and Islamic worlds through art exhibits, book signings, film screenings and musical performances. The cultural activities at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, located in Washington, D.C., are being made available to a wider audience through our website and through lesson plans for educators and students of all ages.

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Q & A with Jackie Salloum, Director of Slingshot Hip-Hop

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Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.

This is a Q&A with Director Jackie Reem Salloum and Hip Hop Artist Sabrina Da Witch (Abeer Alzinaty), who was featured in the film, after the 15 July 2009 screening at Georgetow University.

It was sponsored by the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

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Art Reception: Gaza Conversations

This video is from a reception for the current exhibit "Gaza Conversations: Persistence, Resistance, and Renewal" at the gallery of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, the parent organization of the Palestine Center.

The three artists, Rajie Cook, Najat El-Khairy and Helen Zughaib, spoke. It was moderated by Dagmar Painter.

The event took place on 5 June 2009. The exhibit runs until September.

For an mp3 of the event.

Views expressed on this post or on linked web pages do not represent the Palestine Center, the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development. All content is for educational purposes only.

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Film Showing and Discussion: Palestinian Refugees: Identity Without a Homeland

As part of the Syrian Cultural Lecture Series, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery and Dr. Rafif Al-Sayed Moustapha invite you to a lecture and film discussion entitled:

"Palestinian Refugees: Identity Without a Homeland"

with

Director Adam Shapiro and Dr. Laurie King-Irani

Friday, 20 February 2009
The Jerusalem Fund

Dr. Laurie King-Irani and Adam Shapiro will discuss the global Palestinian refugee experience as portrayed in the new 6-part documentary film series Chronicles of a Refugee. Several segments chosen by Adam Shapiro will be screened.

Filmed in over 15 countries, with more than 250 interviews of Palestinian refugees who have lived in over 25 countries, Chronicles of a Refugee is the first documentary film to look at the global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Produced by Perla Issa, Aseel Mansour and Adam Shapiro.

Adam Shapiro is a human rights activist, dedicated to fostering dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth through "Seeds of Peace". Together with his wife, Shapiro founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an organization that attempts to bring civilians from around the world into non-violent resistance efforts in Palestine. His previous works include a documentary entitled About Baghdad.

Laurie King-Irani is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, and is a founding member of The Electronic Intifada. Currently, she serves as Managing Editor of The Journal for Palestine Studies. She is a frequent commentator on national and international news programs, including MSNBC and CNN, on political, cultural and military developments in the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in the region.

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First Person: Recent Palestinian Art

This video features the current Gallery exhibit at the Jerusalem Fund. It is called "First Person: Recent Palestinian Art."

In the course of a research trip for a story on Israeli art, New York-based critic and curator Mary Evangelista was introduced to a number of outstanding young Palestinian artists. Evangelista's editor refused to include these artists in the magazine, but the experience ignited in Evangelista an ongoing interest in Palestinian contemporary art.

This exhibition will offer a first-person account of one curator's venture into Palestinian contemporary art through a selection of painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and video works. Artists include Hani Zurob, Taysir Batniji, Said Abu Shakra, Farid Abu Shakra, Samir Salameh, Nabil Ananni, Ahmad Canann, and Shadi al Habib.

The exhibit will be on display at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery from 30 January - 27 March 2009.

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Halim Barakat Reads from The Crane (12 February 2009)

Halim Barakat read from his 1988 book 'The Crane,' which has recently been translated from Arabic into English.

It was held on 12 February 2009.

It was sponsored by The Gallery of the The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development in Washington, DC.

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