Sixth Annual Congress of the General Union of Palestinian Student
Artist unknown

Poster published by the General Union of Palestinian Students, 1971, courtesy of the Palestine Poster Project Archive.

Colored Peaks
Rana Bishara

Henna, watercolor, and ink, 2005

Ya Falasteen
Jackie Reem Salloum

Inkjet-printed collage mounted on plexiglass, 2003.
Jackie Reem Salloum, an artist and filmmaker, is the director of Slingshot Hip Hop, an award-winning documentary about Palestinian hiphop music.

Wall Project
Meir Wigoder

Construction of the separation wall in the West Bank, Abu-Dis, 2004. Meir Wigoder’s photo-essay “The Blocked Gaze: A User’s Guide to Photographing the Separation Barrier-Wall” was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Public Culture.

Bethléhem: Vue General
Artist unknown

Postcard of Bethlehem skyline, 1922, from the Palestine Postcard Collection,donated to Columbia by Steven Wachlin and Annelies Moors.

Untitled II
Michael Kennedy

Posters outside a barber shop in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin commemorate Mohammed Qadus, 16, and Usaid Qadus, 19, two teenagers from the village killed in March 2010. 

Homage to Childhood
Rana Bishara
1999

Untitled I
Michael Kennedy

Inscriptions made by Palestinian detainees on the walls of a holding cell in the former al-Fara'a detention center, West Bank. Michael Kennedy is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Funeral of Mahmoud Darwish
Ammar Awad / Reuters

People gather in the streets of Ramallah to pay their respects during the funeral procession for Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, 13 August 2008.