Asim Abu Shaqra

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200 pp. English text, hardback binding, 115 illustrations in color, edited by Nira Itzhaki, preface by Anton Shammas, translated by Assaf Kedar, copy new in mint condition. Someone had to move the sabbar, the cactus, to a flowerpot. "This is how Anton Shammas opens his wonderful preface to this book, and this is the task that Asim Abu Shaqra has carried out over and over again in his paintings, in a kind of obsession arrested only by untimely death at the age of twenty-eight. Throughout the entire course of his life, the artist was haunted by a sense of foreignness and not belonging, as manifested by his infatuation with the sabra, which were actually self-portraits tethered into Palestinian iconography.