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‘I Want To Have Coffee With My Father Like Every Morning In Gaza’: Palestinian Artist Ibrahim Alsultan On Being Separated From Family

While Palestinian Artist Ibrahim Alsultan once made films and worked as a painter and a sculptor, he now only has one desire: to be able to return to the Gaza Strip and be with his family.

Photo: Ibrahim Alsultan
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Every night, every morning, every moment, I hold my breath. They might kill them. Perhaps, I would not even receive the news. Perhaps, they would be buried without even my knowledge. They are my family. They are my everything.바카라 웹사이트

Since the war broke out, my family in Gaza had to leave our home as it was bombed to dust. They destroyed my studio, my library, my memories, and those walls that were filled with love and life. Just before the Israeli strike, I went to attend the 12th laboratory medicine conference in Ramallah at Nablus, a city in the West Bank. However, I could not come back home.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

When I was stuck in Nablus, my family —my parents, three brothers, and seven sisters— were running for life. As our house got destroyed, they had to move to one tower in the Jabalia area. But certainly, I lost their contact. For five days, I was just waiting to hear from them for once. Every second, the fear of losing them was growing. Fortunately, after days, I got to know that they were not in the tower but were staying at a nearby place. No, there was no relief. It was also momentary.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

They were forcibly displaced again as the army started approaching. They neither had water nor food. They had to shift to Shifa Medical Complex. At that time, again, I lost all contact with them. I could do nothing but pray for their safety unless I received a message from my sister that they were still alive.바카라 웹사이트

I am 24-years-old and I did my bachelor라이브 바카라 degree in laboratory medicine from Al-Azhar University in Gaza and completed my master라이브 바카라 degree in biotechnology but couldn’t receive the degree as the war broke out. I consider myself an emerging poet, screenwriter, contemporary dancer, and theatre artist. I remember that I had participated in a school beautification project in Gaza and I got the first prize.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

I also wrote a film at the French Institute in Gaza in the Covidio Art Festival but that couldn’t get much traction as the situation worsened. I worked with the Dar Al-Kalam in Gaza on a sculpture project on human identity. I continued painting for years and wrote several poems. I was about to have a solo exhibition that got cancelled due to the war.바카라 웹사이트All of this, however, is history now. Now, I just want to return to Gaza. I want to hug my family and drink coffee with my father — like every morning in the past days of normalcy.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

I embrace the hopes of life and try to think바카라 웹사이트—
In my heart is a burning that awaits spring,바카라 웹사이트
I bet on a day that will never come,바카라 웹사이트
To carry hope in its sides,바카라 웹사이트
Hope! Hope is the biggest lie, Arthur Miller.바카라 웹사이트
In a gloomy night,바카라 웹사이트
I search for myself,바카라 웹사이트
And I ask the stars of the distant sky,바카라 웹사이트
If there is another place,바카라 웹사이트
An origin for me,바카라 웹사이트
Who am I?!바카라 웹사이트
I am! A lost being in the desert of time,바카라 웹사이트
I carry in my head the noise of dreams,바카라 웹사이트
I search for the essence of truth,바카라 웹사이트
I call the impossible,바카라 웹사이트
I collide with reality!바카라 웹사이트
To find myself in the end,바카라 웹사이트
In front of the sea of the unknown,바카라 웹사이트
And the waves have thrown me here and there바카라 웹사이트
I had no homeland,바카라 웹사이트
To sing on its land,바카라 웹사이트
And live free.바카라 웹사이트

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