APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza City - 29 March 2021. Palestinians attend the first international exhibition in Palestine for plastic art entitled (Palestine is a land and a people), inside the YMCA in Gaza City.
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Governor of Gaza Ibrahim Abu al-Naja
02.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Palestinian artist Imad Al-Saudi
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Contemporary Palestinian art finds its roots in folk art and traditional Christian and Islamic painting popular in Palestine over the ages. After the Nakba of 1948, nationalistic themes have predominated as Palestinian artists use diverse media to express and explore their connection to identity and land.
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