Najah Albukai, Syrian prisons black on white
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Najah Albukai © Sarah Moon
By: Yasmine Chouaki
50 mins
A curly head and a traumatized mind.
A talent for drawing and a pencil that he will have paid dearly in the jails of Bashar al-Assad.
As a child, he drew animals and cowboys.
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After 7 wars, a Syrian revolution, three imprisonments and the horror of refined torture in the 227 center of Damascus,
Najah Albukaï
draws the Syrian body like no one else. Seeing these drawings which bear witness to prison hell in Syria, artists and humanitarian workers have decided to accompany this exceptional work with an exhibition at the Parisian gallery Fait et cause and a book
Tous Témoins, drawings from prison, Syria, October 2015-June 2020
(to be published c / o Actes Sud, a co-edition
So that the spirit lives
).
While the 10 years of the Syrian peaceful revolution have just sounded, that the Syrian people are still bleeding in general indifference (almost 400,000 dead) and that Bashar al-Assad has just assumed an umpteenth mandate, In serious G Major, paints, draws the Middle East with one of his children.
The musical choices of Najah Albukaï
Shepherd's song
Munir Bachir
Ya
Hnayina
Baaba Maal
Njilou
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