Manchester

Palestinian artists take on identity and politics with humor in "Subversion" exhibition

Sarah Irving
13 May 2012

Subversion, an exhibition at Manchester’s Cornerhouse gallery, shows that young Palestinian artists are at the cutting edge of contemporary Arab art.

Phoning my in-laws in Gaza

Xen Hasan
Manchester, United Kingdom
11 January 2009

We haven’t been able to get hold of my sister-in-law for a couple of days. It’s nerve wracking. Soul destroying. I find myself doing horrifying mental arithmetic. I don’t know why, I can’t seem to help it. The UN stated on Thursday that 758 people had been killed. That’s one person for each 2,000 in Gaza. What are the odds that one of them might be Nareman, or one of her family? Xen Hasan writes from the UK.
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