Sydney Morning Herald …T’fouh article
September 13th, 2006
The SMH published an article by Jamie Pandaram on the 12th of September.
Here’s an excerpt:
A provocative Arabic art exhibition organised in response to the conflict in Lebanon last month, includes a painting of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, with a skewer through his head.
The work, titled Ehud Olmert Kebab, which has four images of the Israeli leader’s head skewered with capsicum, has outraged Sydney’s Jewish community, which says it has “overstepped the mark of decency”.
But its creator, the young Lebanon-born, South Korea-based artist Habib Zeitouneh, retorts: “Paintings do not leave families destitute, fathers without wives or children, children without fathers or mothers. I have a right to express my anger over the deaths of over 1000 Lebanese, as do the Israelis mourning the deaths of their own. I’m using satire, not bombs.”
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