{UAH} REMEMBERING SHADIA ABU GHAZALEH; COMMUNIST AND PALESTINIAN MARTYR, DIED IN BATTLE, AGED 19.
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<#TricontinentalTBT> This week we celebrate the birth of Palestinian revolutionary and martyr, #ShadiaAbuGhazaleh (1949-1968). As one the first women in the anti-colonial armed resistance in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), she led political education and military training for women and youth, and bridged national and social liberation struggles.
We feature the artwork of Suhad Khatib, who writes on the life of Shadia: "If we are one, then where's the beginning and end of Shadia's story? Of any rebel's story? The ones whose lives were taken directly and indirectly by colonizers? How can I tell Shadia's story without boring historical context or political rhetoric? What part of her palestinianess isn't historically politicized?
If we recite the names of the people who cried for her when she died at 19 would you be moved? Would you like me to find out who she loved? Is 19 too young to be in love? Do you wish I painted her in a more vulnerable way? Do you like us better when we are victims?
To read Shadia Abu Ghazaleh one must read all the colonials that have taken over Palestine for hundreds of years now, treating Palestinians & their land as property selling us from one colonizer to the other. To read Shadia you must read the PLFP, all the other young men and women who dropped everything to come back home & fight for their liberation, inspired by comrades in Africa and South America. And as you know to read resistance movements you must come uncomfortably close to airplane highjackings and bomb making. Learn that language of violence. But does resisting one's colonizer count as violence?
As you can see, I have no intention of answering any of these questions. Why should I? Colonialism, morally corrupt societies, and over militarization of systems led by fragile-egotistic-Narcissistic-leaders impacts you just as much as it impacts me at this point. We are all on this crashing plane. Figure your way out. Or don't. This painting is not for that at all. This painting is to hold on to this smile, the one that makes her eyes disappear like that. It's a gift from me to the generation of revolutionaries like Shadia, Habash, Wadee' and kanafani that will rise up again."
SUHAD KHATIB is San Francisco based artist, designer and filmmaker. Her father Maher, is a Survivor of the massacre of Lydd in 1948. Her mother, Majida, a fashion designer, was born in Tulkarm, a Palestinian city that was invaded by Europeans in 1967. Suhad was born in Oman, raised in Amman and currently living in the US. She is not allowed to live in her parents' hometowns because: colonialism!
Follow her work here:
Instagram: @ su.had
Twitter: @suh_ads
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