Explore the Depths of Artistry
This website is a meeting of paths between two visual artists from Gaza, mother and son, Najwa Khalil and Mohammed Hossam; a computer science programmer, Tariq Ziyad, also from Gaza; and an Argentine philosopher, Natalia Biesan Lentino.
Together, we created this cooperative so that people around the world may come to know the art of Mohammed Hossam and Najwa Khalil.
Within the framework of A Thousand Cranes for Gaza, Remember the Roots was born.
Exhibitions
These are the paintings that survived beneath the rubble, becoming witnesses to the resilience of both the people and the land.
A child of Gaza
“To be resurrected as a flower, to be unpetaled by a child grown in my homeland.” Fadwa Tuqan
Forced displacement
“Do you see those fifty kilometers? They are like the path that God has not promised we will cross in the beyond before going to hell or heaven.” —Ghassan Kanafani
Fade out
“I will engrave my history, the chapters of my tragedy, and my sighs in my garden and on the graves of my dead.” —Tawfiq Zayyad
