TITLE OF THE POSTER
“Your brother, your wing.”
NAME OF THE ARTIST/DESIGNER
Jamaa al-Yad http://www.jamaalyad.org/
Illustrator: Farah Sleiman
Designers: Yousef Abed Rabboh, Farah Sleiman
Square Kufi calligraphy: Christian Moussa, Daniel Drennan
NAME OF THE PUBLISHER (PLEASE PROVIDE THE PUBLISHER’S WEB SITE IF AVAILABLE)
Al-Akhbar newspaper http://www.al-akhbar.com/
DATE OF PUBLICATION
February 25, 2010
DIMENSIONS OF THE POSTER
29 x 45 cm
WHERE WAS THE POSTER PRINTED?
Beirut, Lebanon
WHAT LANGUAGES ARE USED/VISIBLE IN THE POSTER?
Arabic, English
TRANSLATION OF ALL TEXT
INTERPRETATION OF IMAGERY (PLEASE TELL US WHAT THE ICONS, IMAGES, COLORS, ETC. MEAN TO YOU)
In this series of posters actual press images were reworked as either linoleum print or scratchboard illustrations. Each poster contains images of despair mixed with symbols of hope and resistance. Corporations profiting from the occupation of Palestine are listed based on their references in the image. A Lebanese proverb is coupled with the image to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Square kufi was chosen for its bold quality but also its link to the historical representation of the local language. English and Arabic are used expressly to speak to either the colonized or the colonizer. This is in contrast to much printed matter in Lebanon which is bilingual as a “service” to the colonizers and compradors, French and Anglo-Saxon.
Listed companies: FENCING: Motorola; Schaumberg, Illinois (9% owner: Afcon Industries Group, Israel). HOMELAND SECURITY SYSTEMS: Athlone Global Security; Arlington, Virginia.
The signs of hope and resistance pictured include the dove, the clenched fist.
SUGGESTED LINKS (PLEASE PROVIDE ANY LINKS, WIKIPEDIA/OTHERS THAT YOU THINK ARE RELEVANT)
WAS THIS POSTER PRINTED-ON-PAPER OR IS IT A “DIGITAL ONLY” POSTER?
Printed on paper.http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/your-brother-your-wing
NOTE: In terms of categorization, this is an image from a checkpoint, not a prison. From: drennan@panix.com
Subject: Re: A complete Special Collection gallery for Jamaa al Yad...check it out...
Date: March 14, 2010 6:05:25 AM EDT
To: liberation@igc.org
Artist: Farah Sleiman
Artists' Statement:
In this series of posters actual press images were reworked as either linoleum print or scratchboard illustrations. Each poster contains images of despair mixed with symbols of hope and resistance. Corporations profiting from the occupation of Palestine are listed based on their references in the image. A Lebanese proverb is coupled with the image to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Square kufi was chosen for its bold quality but also its link to the historical representation of the local language. English and Arabic are used expressly to speak to either the colonized or the colonizer. This is in contrast to much printed matter in Lebanon which is bilingual as a “service” to the colonizers and compradors, French and Anglo-Saxon.
Listed companies: FENCING: Motorola; Schaumberg, Illinois [9% owner: Afcon Industries Group, Israel]. HOMELAND SECURITY SYSTEMS: Athlone Global Security; Arlington, Virginia.
The signs of hope and resistance pictured include the dove, the clenched fist.
Daniel Drennan | Beirut Diary Online | http://www.inquisitor.com/LOL
1)
Sometimes email communication makes me really glad for face-to-face meetings!!
http:/www.jamaalyad.org/ART/POSTERS/POSTERA/POSTERA.pdf
is the link to the front page of our newspaper supplement; you can find this at our web site.
What happened was we went to al-Akhbar and asked them whether they would add us to the end of their print run--you know, like if you don't clean the press and just swap in some other plates, then you can run another job cheaply. They said they would print up the full supplement for us, and include it with each issue of their paper. So on February 25, when you bought al-Akhbar, you also got our supplement. If you download the link above, you will see our front page--at the top is our "bayaan" or declaration from Israeli Apartheid Week; at the bottom is our recipe and instructions for wheat paste. Since we were *part* of the newspaper, al-Akhbar didn't cover us with a story....though we got press elsewhere.
fhimt aleihi? afwan if I wasn't clear before!
I can, if you wish, give you the other press links we received....but they were more about our workshops in the refugee camp.
So if you want, you can include the above PDF file with our pages, no problem. But the recipe is in Arabic of course.
2) The al-akhbar site link goes to their newspaper issue of the day....
3) I'm including some pictures here of posters up on the wall but I confess that we put them up! LOL It was actually pretty funny; when word got out that our posters were in there, the issue sold out within certain parts of the city. Usually their daily return of unsolds is about 2000; this day it was 1200. So 800 people bought the paper basically to have the supplement....and everyone hoarded it and didn't put up any posters! Juan Fuentes told me he has this problem with his work as well; people take it down and hang it in their room. I wasn't disappointed; I had said before we started when one skeptical student asked me why we were bothering with this: "If one Palestinian child in one of the refugee camps puts up one poster and the rest get thrown away, it will still have been worth it."
I accept the title PAPPPAB&R with honor and humility! Tsharafni!
I'm flying to Canada for a conference next week; while there I am planning to buy a digital camera--I've been an analog hold out for a long time. Once thus armed, i can start documenting stuff for you; and I'll try to grab what I can when I find it. I'm pretty well connected on the street where it counts....
salamat
d.
|ya zameely,
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|1) I am disappointed because I wanted to make the article about JAY available via the PPPA to
|the world. I was intrigued because you mentioned that you gave advice for wheatpasting: the
|world needs this advice. Can you somehow make the article available? Can the paper give you
|something, a file, a doc, whatever, that you can then load at the JAY site and then I could
|link to it?
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|2) I will leave the al akhbar link up there but I wonder why it it static?
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|3) I am hereby officially "putting the bite on you" to take pictures of posters on walls around
|Beirut. I would also love to see what's on the walls of the AUB's. If you make it out to ARCPA
|please remind Mo'ataz that I want to create a Special Collection for ARCPA but I need posters
|and jpegs. Tayyib?
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|I am hereby awarding you with the title: "Poster Ambassador to the PPPA for Beirut and Region".
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|Mabrook!
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|Dan
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|I lifted this honey from the al akhbar site:
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|http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/demonstration-in-cairo-2010
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|On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Drennan wrote:
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|>ah! I get it. The link is to their main page; it's basically a
|>courtesy to
|>them....they didn't put our PDFs up or anything....if you want
|>to leave it
|>out, feel free. I think though that it might be nice to have it there....
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|>>http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/where-can-the-wolf-hide-in-...
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|>>Q: regarding the Al Akhbar link.
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|>>I don't see the story about JAY. I get a page of the paper with Cesar
|>>Chavez and other stories...
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|>>What I wanted to do was link DIRECTLY to the story/posters about JAY.
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|>>I echo your question: Am I missing something here? :)
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|>>Dan
Daniel Drennan | Jamaa al-Yad | http://www.jamaalyad.org/