Afghan street artist longs to share her work
A 23-year-old Afghan graffiti artist longs to share her work at home, but she faces harsh restrictions. Instead, she sets up private exhibitions to give other women courage to be bold and colorful.
Afghan street artist longs to share her work
Shamsia is freer to share her work in Germany than in Afghanistan
Shamsia says she invented a new kind of graffiti
Palestinian artist gives hope to community under occupation
Eid, a 26-year-old Palestinian Bedouin, turns scrap material into art. His own house may be facing imminent demolition, but he is determined that his children will inherit his capacity to dream.
Palestinian artist gives hope to community under occupation
Watch a short documentary film about Eid here.
Eid with his wife Na'ama and daughter Sadin
From DW reporter Kate Laycock:
I first met Eid in November 2010, when I visited his village in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the company of a mutual friend.
Although many people had tried to describe Eid to me, nothing could have prepared me for the emotion of the encounter.
Here is a young man living in one of the poorest areas of the occupied West Bank. The villages live in rickety concrete dwellings with corrugated iron roofs. Almost all the homes in his part of the village have demolition orders on them. The bulldozers could come at any time.
And yet he dares to dream.
Berlin ‘upcycler’ turns trash into treasures
Used teabags become necklaces and empty tetra paks turn into shower curtains. Julia Vernersson encourages others to think differently about waste by making useful – and beautiful – everyday objects out of it.
See some of Julia’s work here.
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