The Arab al-Sbaih refers to the Palestinian Nakba, which is annually commemorated on May 15 – the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The image (sic) shows a shelter built in Irbid, Jordan, by the exiled sheikh of Arab al-Sbaih for the people of the neighborhood during the Israeli-Arab war of 1967.
The GDR was founded on October 7, 1949. It seems as if historians are unable to agree upon what to call the territory of the German Reich between the end of the war in 1945 and the fall of 1949. As I was born in May 1949, I cannot answer the potential question about my […]
The Festival mondial des arts nègres represents the first official showcase of works by African international artists. This, by some fateful coincidence, was the first art exhibition I saw, when I was eight years old.
On my second birthday. Wearing the Nigerian “national clothes.” Soon after this (sic) photo was taken, my family and I would be internally displaced refugees thanks to Nigeria. Still in the same territory, but under a new flag, our world would never be the same again.
It was my birthday, and with my father we were by the swimming pool. A tall guy was working alone on a chess problem. Dad offered to play with him and won twice. Much later, I found out that the tall guy’s name was Bobby Fischer.
The illustration on our first opening poster is from a color lithograph titled Ilpost (Urgent Mail) by one of our members Keviselie/Hans Ragnar Mathisen. It symbolizes the pressure from competing with dominant societies that Sámit and other Indigenous people have to cope with.
On May 20, 1982, I was invited to stay in the dome of the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy at New Gourna. Consequently I began to dream of building a dome house for myself. Five years later, we developed a technique at the University of Kassel to build domes from adobes (earth blocks) without formwork. Since […]
Sikh massacres, Baba Kharak Singh Road, Connaught Place, New Delhi, November 1, 1984
We enter the house of Valia Kozintsev, the widow of Grigori Kozintsev. He was a member of the film school FEKS. “Look at this photo on Grigori’s desk. It is of Meyerhold. It has never been moved since Meyerhold’s arrest.
People returning from a ceremony in Kosova in which many feuding families publicly forgave the murderers of their relatives. This was one of the reconciliation meetings aimed at bringing the tradition of revenge killings to an end.