{"id":92351,"date":"2017-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/4616\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:00:00","slug":"4616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/4616","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian artist holds art gallery workshop in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ghassan Al-Saadi, a former resident of Yarmouk Camp, embarked on a so-called Virserum Forum for Fine Art joined by 15 male and female artists from Syria and Palestine in the Swedish village of Virserum.<\/div>\n<div>A one-week workshop kicked off as of January 28 in the lounge of the Virserum Art Museum. The event is slated to conclude on February 5, 2017.<\/div>\n<div>In comments on the event, Palestinian refugee Al-Saadi said master pieces reflecting the bright side of life in the Middle East will be put on display for a European audience, particularly the Swedes.<\/div>\n<div>The art workshop also aims to subvert the stereotypes and biased representations of the Middle East inculcated in the European mindset.<\/div>\n<div>Artists Rola Hamza, Talel Abu Dan, Rabiaa Ibrahim, Dhiaa Al-Deen Al-Hamawi, Anas Salama, Murtadha Ibrahim, Sham Droubi, Yahya Ashmawi, Arwat Hamzat, Anana Barakat, Mazen Awda, Emad Rashdan, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, Suzan Yasseen, and Maamoun Al-Shayeb took part in the event.<\/div>\n<div>The artistic output of the workshop is expected to be put on display for six months in the Virserums Museum starting February 5 until August 1. 70% of the sales revenues will be allocated to Al-Saadi as part of underway endeavors to prop up financial support for refugee artists.<\/div>\n<div>Nearly 80,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria reached Europe, seeking a safe shelter from the unabated warfare.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ghassan Al-Saadi, a former resident of Yarmouk Camp, embarked on a so-called Virserum Forum for Fine Art joined by 15 male and female artists from Syria and Palestine in the Swedish village of Virserum. A one-week workshop kicked off as of January 28 in the lounge of the Virserum Art Museum. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}