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Category Archives: Art
Graphic Liberation! A conversation with Josh MacPhee
From the web site for the Justseeds Artists’ Co-operative: This conversation I had with Daniel Drennan ElAwar (from Jamaa Al-Yad Artists’ Collective) took place over zoom on September 29th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Art, craft, Engagements & Events
Tagged art, Jamaa Al-Yad, Lebanon, Palestine, printmaking, resistance
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On Palestine, apartheid, land, patience, and steadfastness
I sent a text message to a dear friend I had not seen in a long while, wishing him a happy Eid. He wrote back: “I’m in Gaza.” I knew he was planning this trip, but did not know he … Continue reading
ineradicable voices: narratives toward rerooting: event video
In a previous entry [link ➤] I announced my participation with a collective performance/witnessing of adopted and fostered people in a safe and welcoming environment. It was an amazing experience, and I looked forward to our weekly virtual gatherings as … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption activism, Adoption resistance, Art, Outspoken adoptees
Tagged adoption, Oral history, witnessing
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On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation
Maymanah Farhat contacted me to write a two-paragraph art review for Jadaliyya’s 2018 end-of-year art review. I wrote the following instead. With special thanks to Maymanah for follow-up reference to the El-Khiam prison art collection, and to Lara Atallah for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Worthwhile Commentary
Tagged Arab world, Beirut, Canada, decolonization, immigration, protest art, radical art, Vancouver
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Decolonizing illustration: Rerooting culture, language, and activist practice
I have uploaded my expanded presentation from the CAA Conference in New York City last month. I presented on decolonization in the classroom (in the original liberation sense of the term, not the current vapid buzzword sense). The buzzword aspect … Continue reading
Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency
As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve started an artist’s residency at the Newark Print Shop. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign, which was successful.
Malcolm X Returns to Beirut
This was my second piece for Land of Gazillion Adoptees/Gazillion Voices [link to article], originally published in May of 2015.
Jamaa Al-Yad: New Projects
Jamaa Al-Yad is happy to announce two new projects. The first is in collaboration with the Inteference Archive in Brooklyn, which has put together a portfolio of posters honoring the Cuban poster design of the Organization of Solidarity of the … Continue reading
Boycott, Divest, and Sanction #BDS
Excerpted from the art and design blog, Design Altruism Project [link to blog]: This is a movement for global justice, both political and economic. It focuses on the various levels of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance that formed the active undergirding … Continue reading
Daniel Drennan ElAwar 
Existence is Resistance: The BDS and Land Back Movements
This statement is in response to the Vancouver City Council’s recent resolution targeting BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). It has been updated to reflect growing local efforts in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and protests concerning the construction of … Continue reading →