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On Monday 24 October 2016 we make a photowalk in the village of Asira ash Shamaliya near Nablus Palestine. The group consists of a mixture of architects of RIWAQ and interested persons from the village itself. Participating: Aya Tahhan and Renad Shqeirat from Riwaq, Wael Sawalha and Nasr Yaseen employees in the municipality, Samer Sawalha photographer, Ahmad Yaseen student, Rana Yaseen interior designer, Ehab Yaseen estate agent, Rita Yaseen architect.
Saturday 1st of October 2016
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Is this wood or bones? Is it bones of a tree or a human? This tree refuses to die and splints its fracture itself. In the coming few years it…
Ahmad Kamel Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
I like languages, and I like to be able to read and grasp most of what I read. In Palestine, most of the trading trucks and vans carry the name…
Renad Shqeirat –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
While photographing we walk through the neighborhood. A group of 10 people with cameras (plus a filmmaker) it falls on. From different windows we are addressed by friendly ladies. This…
Lino Hellings –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Water in Palestine is a scarcity and is valuable. It is considered one the main reasons of the conflict in the region. However, the leaking water on the asphalt streets…
Renad Shqeirat –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
In this picture, there are three antennas on the roof of the car, but they are not used to enhance a signal but rather as an accessory to add beauty…
Nasr Samer Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
The home of a martyr’s family that was destroyed by the Zionist occupation, nothing is left of the home but the rubble that brings pain into our hearts…but from the…
Rita Ziad Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Everything has a beginning and an end. You might experience it as the sad pain of the disease, but remember the whole life is just an endless reincarnation of happiness…
Wael Salem Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Even the decaying wood thirsts at some point. Maybe it yearns to the tree it was chopped from. It fails to quenches its thirst, so it imagines itself a bridge…
Ahmad Kamel Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Palestinians suffer from severe shortage of water specially during summers due to the confiscation of Palestinian water sources from Israel & the lack of rainfall. Israel also controls the water…
Aya Tahhan –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
While walking in Asira Ashamilya on a normal working day, amongst a group of 10, I meditated for a while by following the soothing sound of dropping water from the…
Renad Shqeirat –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
A cat rests in the shadows yet no one knows what it thinks. Humans as well they have their own thoughts but none of us knows what they really think…
Nasr Samer Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Ninety years have passed and the smile is reborn everyday a thousand times. Ninety years and the eyes are still inventing colors of happiness in this grey world. She sits…
Wael Salem Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Through the dehydration garlic is preserved by hanging it away from the sun, while remaining well ventilated. This is how garlic is preserved in Palestinian homes, usually on drawers or…
Rita Ziad Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
Another solution for the water shortage in Palestine is calling the water tank tractor driver in order to get clean water to fill the tanks.…
Aya Tahhan –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
A smile the size of the world and the size of exhaustion gives life a different meaning. This is the life of the hard workers, even their smile is tired…
Wael Salem Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
It is just a sentence written on the wall, but when you read it makes you realise that in your busy life, you should not forget that you are not…
Nasr Samer Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
This man is sad like the olive tree that no one pays attention to. He sits, thinks, and ponders on the hot memory plate. He presses his sadness like the…
Wael Salem Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
The grape vine is what caught my attention the most while wandering in my beloved village, Asira Ash Shamaliya. Almost all houses have a grape vine, and it is usually…
Rita Ziad Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
We Have problems with water for daily use so we use this tanks and tractors to get it to our homes and this man works as driver to help his…
Ehab Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
A sentence loved by Palestinians and is a source of pride. It is used by companies in their ads all across Palestine to support and encourage Palestinians, and to prove…
Nasr Samer Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
These are the words for our great poet Mohammad Darwish was written on the school wall by students with a smile faces to tell others helping people will make you…
Ehab Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
The olive tree is our logo and our guide. How to still fighting to be in our land?…
Ehab Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
With an amputated foot, he insists on walking the long road of life. That is how the strong walk, the hope beaming in his eyes has a thousand feet…
Wael Salem Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya