This piece is about the Arab world and how it is always divided, especially during the last century.
School trips are not allowed in the UNRWA schools, as an UNRWA policy. Therefore, the only trips the girls are permitted to take are the ones where they visit their family members who are detained in the Israeli prisons. This piece is a list of the students’ names who were absent from the school to take these visits.
The school was attacked during the second Intifada by the Israeli soldiers with bullets and bombs, and until now the threat of gas bombs attacks remains. As such, the installation shows the bullets and bombs which were found inside the school placed with onions which are used as a first aid against these gas bombs. The girls distributed onions to the audience as a precaution procedure in case anything happens while the exhibition is taking place.
This piece is about the lack of computers in the school, and how the girls study computer theoretically through pictures and books only, but never get to do practical training. The installation represents a school computer lab with no computers.
This piece is about early marriages for girls, who get pregnant while still in schools.
The piece represents the influence of the emerging pop culture in the Arab world on the youth. It shows a study table with a school bag full of celebrities’ pictures, make-up, perfumes…etc.
This piece symbolizes the refugees’ camp with its light structures and narrow roads, as a place in which the girls and their families live temporarily while waiting to return to their original homes and lands which were occupied in the year 1948.
This installation represents the child rights which the Palestinian children do not have due to the Israeli Occupation and the economic situation.
The piece illustrates a street stall for a young boy, who works in order to support his family. The students also placed panels about the rights of children with a “X” sign over each right.
This installation is about the Palestinian’s Right of Return back to their homes and lands occupied in the year 1948.
The work represents a story of a Palestinian refugee who is sailing on a raft in a sea of blue stones, longing to return back to the homeland, Palestine.
