After a break to focus on events in Palestine, I continue the graffiti series to commemorate Naji al-Ali. Here, in Aida camp, Handala is painted against a sky blue wall, standing atop red and yellow hills. Handala is always depicted barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes 1/
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This reflects al-Ali's childhood, growing up in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp. He explains, “This character came out of my life in the camp, a typical child of those days—barefoot, destitute & deprived. I created this character so that I would never forget where I came from.” 2/
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Al-Ali describes this struggle over life in the camp as not only material, but existential: “When I was a child, my mother told me that I was a Palestinian, but the whole world told me that I was a refugee. I used to ask myself, ‘What am I?’” 3/3
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