![]() ![]() ![]() They are numbered from 1-500, with a mix of events and stories, flashbacks and history. Occasionally, there is only a photograph or illustration. He has used a design loosely based on the famous Thousand and One Nights, Or Tales of the Arabian nights, which was a favourite book of Smadar’s, an Israeli.Ĭhapters are sometimes only a few words or a paragraph, or several pages long. McCann has taken interviews and transcripts to weave together the personal, the politics, and the history of the families and the conflict. The true story of Bassam and Rami and their daughters has been well documented, but I doubt there is anything that begins to describe it as well as this account. She was coming out of a shop with sweets. Everything else rose out of that.”Ībir was born that year and was killed by a rubber bullet in 2007. Smadar was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 1997. Also what you might call a graduate of the Holocaust.” ![]() I am a sixty-seven- year- old graphic designer, an Israeli, a Jew, a seventh- generation Jerusalemite. Two fathers, one Palestinian, one Israeli, each lost young daughters in the conflict in the Middle East. If there are too many sides to count, how would you know which one is yours and which one is ‘opposite’? If you choose and decide, what will you do about it? “Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides.īassam and Rami gradually came to understand that they would use the force of their grief as a weapon.” ![]()
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