The English Language Department at the College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Basra organized a seminar on the art of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli entity as a tool for asserting political existence.
The seminar aimed to explain the concept of beautiful resistance and the role of the arts in the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli entity, documenting, archiving, and analyzing the ideological discourse emerging from these works.
The episode presented by lecturer Nawras Sabah Abdel Zahra showed that beautiful resistance is a peaceful and dynamic resistance against the ugliness of the Israeli occupation, and that the arts were a vital element in the Palestinian resistance and a tool for affirming political existence. Artists used their works to demonstrate strength, freedom and solidarity using various arts, and one of these arts is Graffiti is art written or drawn on a wall or surface. Using this art, the Palestinians turned the apartheid wall into a work of art to express resistance. The image of a tree was used to mean that they (the Palestinians) are like trees, rooted and connected to the land.
They used the image of watermelon, which is the most symbolic fruit representing Palestine and shares the same colors as the Palestinian flag - red, green, white and black - so it is used to protest against Israel's suppression of the Palestinian flag and identity.
