Atef Daghlis - Jenin refugee camp
As soon as you enter any of the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, your eyes will fall on their walls. A large part of these walls, especially the external ones, overlooking the main streets are covered with expressions and drawings bearing the story of the refugee in one form or another. With all its tragedies.
It is not in vain to draw such murals. They are also political, cultural and historical. They speak of the suffering of their owners locally and internationally, and remind the younger generation in the camps dialogues and narrow alleys that their right to return to their land will not be subject to prescription.
These murals are usually drawn by artists from different places and institutions, or others do so out of personal motives. But in our story, the hero was the plastic artist Muhammad Shalabi, the son of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, who refuses to abandon him under any circumstance. And other refugees at all times to continue the struggle for their "sacred" right to return.
On the walls of his house and the houses of the people in the camp, the line of the Chalabi dozens of murals, and on the line of paper thousands of them, and once melted or disappear the features of any one of them for one reason or another until re-awakened again by drawing it as it or to make new additions to it or a new mural.