Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

Searching for Our Destination

For a period of approximately 20 days, the length of our sojourn in
Ramallah, we engaged with a variety of individuals: shepherds, thinkers,
revolutionaries, street vendors, bus drivers, liars, shopkeepers, widows,
peasants, prisoners, farmers, strikers, activists and artists. Our goal was
to increase our knowledge of the Palestinian situation in a more immediate
way; we did so through learning about the everyday experience of the
people we encountered and about how Israeli measures, particularly in
the West Bank, but also in Israel, suffocate the Palestinians, hinder them
and attempt to destroy their lives…