“50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya”

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.

My school and my mosque

Asira ash Shamaliya -  I adore this place because it is my first primary school, where I spent 6 years in a row. I transitioned between all the classrooms in the building before it…
Wael Salem Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

My love

Asira ash Shamaliya -  His name is Ehab and there is no man more beautiful and gentler then him. And the best man in my life. He is my friend and the reason for…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Memory juice

Asira ash Shamaliya -  It is not only oil, it is life, hope, and love pressed gently. Its aromatic scent and its burning taste are like memories, its color clear like the truth. A…
Wael Salem Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Inviting vs. \\

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This photo manifests the difference in approach and aspirations between past and present. The old entrance to a house marked with a simple pergola covered by a climbing grape vine…
Renad Shqeirat – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Home Garden

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Historically, home gardens were main elements in residential architecture; people grew fruitful trees, herbs, shrubs and flowers in their courtyards or in their gardens surrounding their houses. Through the years…
Aya Tahhan – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Habitat for Pollination

Asira ash Shamaliya -  An alive old house is perceived as one that has a clean & pointed stone facade. This is photo of a typical abandoned old house that can be found in…
Renad Shqeirat – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Food for the soul

Asira ash Shamaliya -  In the streets of the village we meet mostly elderly. Some are retired, others still at work. This man answers our questions kindly while his hands remain engaged in the…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Face wrinkles

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Wrinkles fill the faces of old men and women, stories that started and ended at some time…what number of smiles and tears were they too shy to show in the…
Samer Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Lost path

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Inhabitants of this house has moved out far away, even the path has moved out with them, leaving it with no road leading to it. The grass is occupying the…
Ahmad Kamel Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

I take my own decisions

Asira ash Shamaliya -  In some communities there is a misconception against women That women cannot make anything work. And that women are only suitable for the housekeeping and raising children and preparing food…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Happiness

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Happiness cannot be bought…the joy of Palestinian children in occupied Palestine’s beautiful alleys despite the pain and the siege, there is determination to lead happy lives. In Palestinian villages and…
Samer Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Guardian of the Land

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This pile of steel is being eaten away by rust and time, but it still guards the lands and gently marks the soil to imprint within it poetry of nature…
Wael Salem Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Food for the body

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This elderly man drives around with a water tank behind a tractor. The water from Palestine is pumped by the Israeli and transported to Israel only to be redistributed back…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Education comes first

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This unfinished house belongs to a father of 6 daughters and sons, he is a worker with a humble income, yet he was very proud telling me about his kids…
Aya Tahhan – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Keeping up with technology

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Despite the harshness of life and the run down home, we still keep up with technological advance, the proof being these satellite dishes on this partly destroyed building that we…
Wael Salem Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

I still working

Asira ash Shamaliya -  I did not need any help I am still strong…
Ehab Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Hangouts

Asira ash Shamaliya -  These seats are usually made of concrete or stone, and can be found in front of old buildings and public spaces in the historic center of Asira Ash Shamaliya, where…
Rita Ziad Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Freedom will come

Asira ash Shamaliya -  The dawn of freedom is coming’ you can read under drawing of the peace dove. The building behind the wall is a elementary school. Education is highly regarded. Youngsters go…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Feed my children

Asira ash Shamaliya -  I am an old man, but I work hard to Live And feed my children Because we are in Palestine No health insurance No salary for adults age If you…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Jail-cell Camera

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Life is much more beautiful outside the camera lenses, our eyes translate the colors the way they should be. When man was unable to be free in the nature, he…
Ahmad Kamel Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

I am abandoned

Asira ash Shamaliya -  I am on my own. Stainless gloomy is this place. An eerie silence prevails. I was left alone in the world of silence. Dreams were yesterday’. This empty house…
Rita Ziad Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Half Open, Half Closed

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Many of the Historic buildings in Palestine are abandoned, our aim in Riwaq is to remind people about the importance of our cultural identity, to encourage people to use such…
Aya Tahhan – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Freedom on the wall

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Freedom is drawn on the wall but we do not always get it. In Palestine there is no freedom Those who go to jail will not get freedom. Even when…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Falafel and homos

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This man makes falafel and homos as small snack bar where people in our village can buy our traditional food every day for breakfast and dinner as the way how…
Ehab Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya