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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 -
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
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
The sky is blue and clear, but it cannot remain that way for long before white clouds come in and add to its beauty. There are also the grey clouds…
Nasr Samer Yaseen –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Photos of Palestinian youth rejoicing. They were very excited about our photo tour, having 10 camera's pointed at them. They decided to share this moment of joy with us.…
Samer Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
This rubble preserves whatever is left of a memory. In every corner of this place, there is a luminous spirit washing in olive oil, praying, and crying. Were its tears…
Ahmad Kamel Yaseen –
50 villages 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
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
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
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
The profession of Taxi drivers in Palestine is not physically hard, yet it is psychologically hard and very stressful, roads are often crowded and jammed, Israeli Military closes the roads…
Samer Sawalha –
50 villages 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
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
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
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
Clothes on a laundry rope... Many people in Palestine tend to hang their laundry in the fresh air and under the sun rays.…
Samer Sawalha –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
In Palestine tea is a very popular drink, whenever there is tea you see people socialising and chatting. It is a small break from the busy life …
Aya Tahhan –
50 villages 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
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
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
A Palestinian woman from the northern town of Asira older than 75 but still working and support herself from a small shop. Palestinians are strong, struggle and do not need…
Rana Bassam Yaseen –
50 villages 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 . Ù†Øتاج للراØØ©…
Rana Bassam Yaseen –
50 villages 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
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
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