An image from ‘Palestine: Rehumani-zine the World’ at the entrance to Masrah al-Madina. (Credit: João Sousa/L’Orient Today)
BEIRUT — Jana Traboulsi reckons she’s been posting sketches on social media for almost a decade. Previous online interventions have engaged with Lebanon’s popular mobilizations — the trash crisis demos of 2015 and the pre-collapse uprising of 2019.More recently, the artist, graphic designer and educator has been driven to respond to the bloody collective punishment of civilians in occupied Palestine since Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood operation of Oct. 7. As this story is being prepared, Israel’s eight-month bombardment of Gaza has left over 36,500 confirmed deaths, many more injuries and incalculable material damage in its wake.“By Oct 9, I was feeling saturated,” Traboulsi recalls. “Too many horrendous photos and videos. I’d be functioning during the day but, like many people, I would obsess at night, watching things online and crying. I felt...
BEIRUT — Jana Traboulsi reckons she’s been posting sketches on social media for almost a decade. Previous online interventions have engaged with Lebanon’s popular mobilizations — the trash crisis demos of 2015 and the pre-collapse uprising of 2019.More recently, the artist, graphic designer and educator has been driven to respond to the bloody collective punishment of civilians in occupied Palestine since Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood operation of Oct. 7. As this story is being prepared, Israel’s eight-month bombardment of Gaza has left over 36,500 confirmed deaths, many more injuries and incalculable material damage in its wake.“By Oct 9, I was feeling saturated,” Traboulsi recalls. “Too many horrendous photos and videos. I’d be functioning during the day but, like many people, I would obsess at night, watching things online...
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