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Tired smile

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 but it beams so pure like rays of sunshine and truth

Wael Salem Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

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

Think about others

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

Carpet laundry

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This is a small project in Asira for a young man. Because of the lack of jobs in government. Graduates go to work up their own business. To provide for…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Of mice and man

Asira ash Shamaliya -  It looks like a mouse has eaten its way through the wall. But it is in fact an elderly gentleman who made the tunnels with the jack hammer machine down…
Lino Hellings – 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

Thinking

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

Car smashed سUŠØ§Ø±Ø© U…حطU…Ø©

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This car is smashed by the Palestinian police because it’s an illegal car. It was bought in Israel for only 400 shekel. Probably reported as stolen or de-listed by…
Ehab Yaseen – 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

Shared Bread Value

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Bread left on the sides of the streets is a common view in Muslim villages as well as amongst ultra orthodox Jewish communities. Both Muslims and religious Jews consider bread…
Renad Shqeirat – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Black day

Asira ash Shamaliya -  In the old village there is an empty plot of land. It has a splendid view on the hills. Imagine a small public garden here with some trees for the…
Lino Hellings – 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

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

I still working

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

Seasons

Asira ash Shamaliya -  The stored barrels on the roofs for oil storage, the carpets laying on the trees or on the side walks for olive picking, the big sacks laying on the sides…
Renad Shqeirat – 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

They talk to us about paina€¦we talk to them about hope

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

The foot that turned into a way of life

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

One question

Asira ash Shamaliya -  What would you do if I bought this piece of meat ? سؤال واحد . ماذا كنت ستفعل اذا اشتريت قطعة اللحم هذه…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Property Announcement

Asira ash Shamaliya -  “Ra’fat“ & “Aya“ these are two names written in two different construction sites that we saw in ’Asira Ashamaliyyah during the photowalk. Apperantly most of the…
Aya Tahhan – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Smoking is bad for health

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Smoking and its effect on the elderly…there is a high percentage of smoking amongst Palestinian youth due to the ever-rising concerns and worries in their lives and the rising unemployment…
Samer Sawalha – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Between the past and the present

Asira ash Shamaliya -  The past is our collective history, our ancestors’ identity. This is a building that was built hundreds of years ago, but it couldn’t have been restored and preserved without the…
Nasr Samer Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

The woman who sells memories

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

Tea Time

Asira ash Shamaliya -  After a long day and tired, we need to rest. A cup of tea with some friends and each fatigue will disappear. وقت الشاي . بعد يوم طويل ومتعب . نحتاج للراحة…
Rana Bassam Yaseen – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya