They Tried To Bury Us

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Pastel drawing by Vladimir Tamari exhibited in the International Exhibit for Palestine (Beirut) in 1979. The work was lost during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Beirut and bombing of the museum where it was exhibited

The text is a paraphrase from a 1970 poem by Dino Christianpoulos, later misattributed to a Mexican proverb

Text in AlQuds Monhani font designed by the artist