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Ali Louis Bourzgui winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical at the 79th Tony Awards

"Intifada OBI" inspired by intifada dress, Palestinian thobe embroidered with 🇵🇸flags worn at protests. This obi was embroidered by 6 refugee women in Gaza, we don't even know if they are alive. I want to share beauty and resilience of Palestinian culture through this OBI.

Lunar halo

Nasirormolk Mosque/ Shiraz/ Iran 🌈

knohá:ˀah It means "aunt." No, what does it really mean? Means "small mother." It means your "other mother."

💟 solidarity from the peoples of brazil to the people of palestine—

last year, @fairuzfan suggested that people make art in support of palestine. i planned something that was supposed to be posted on the last strike, but it took me longer than expected.

it's finished now! this is in solidarity with palestinians, including palestinian-brazilians, who have been working tirelessly for justice in brazil as well.

i chose to highlight aspects of the land that are important to palestinians and the palestinian cause: the olive trees, jaffa oranges, the figs, poppies, faqqua irises and the palestinian mountain gazelle. the figure of the woman itself is wearing the traditional thobe and headwear of ramallah, which i found! so beautiful!

for the brazilian figure i asked my grandma what she used to wear and what our family used to plant decades ago, when she lived in the northeastern countryside (she is way more familiarised with the land than me). had some help from friends of the region as well, so i drew a jaguar, manioc roots, corn, cashews, sweet potatoes, a carnaúba palm tree and mandacaru flowers.

some of those, such as manioc roots and mandacaru cacti, remind me of resilience and the sustaining of life in difficult times, and what they may allow to flourish and to go on:

vida e não apenas sobrevida. that is, "life and not only survival!"

may palestine and it's people live! live free from every form of oppression that allowed this genocide, this nakba to take place.

inspirations & sources bellow the cut.