{"product_id":"9780863567599","title":"Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Shockingly beautiful and evocative . . . the artists echo the feelings of Palestinians who have to make do with life in a divided, disfigured land.\"—Raja Shehadeh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn art and literature, walls are frequently used as powerful symbols of division. For the people of Palestine, however, the wall that cuts deeply into their land and society is all too real, snaking through over seven hundred kilometres of the West Bank. It throttles Palestinians, seals off Israelis, and all but guarantees perpetual ignorance, fear, and rage on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eKeep Your Eye on the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e brings together seven award-winning artist-photographers and four essayists, all responding to the Wall in images or words, specially commissioned for this book. The photographers present unique perspectives, whether documenting the journey of laborers across the barrier, the desolation of abandoned checkpoints, or the tattered posters of \"martyrs\" on a wall in Gaza.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing the photographic work of Taysir Batniji, Raed Bawayah, Rula Halawani, Noel Jabbour, Raeda Saadeh, Steve Sabella, and Kai Wiedonhöfer, and the words of Malu Halasa, Yael Lerer, Christine Leuenberger, and Adania Shibli.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eOlivia Snaije\u003c\/b\u003e is the books editor for \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar Art\u003c\/i\u003e and a reporter for Beirut's \u003ci\u003eDaily Star\u003c\/i\u003e . She was formerly executive editor at \u003ci\u003eAlef\u003c\/i\u003e , a London-based magazine covering Middle Eastern culture, and editor-in-chief of World Media in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMitchell Albert\u003c\/b\u003e was the program director of Writers' Centre Norwich and the former editorial director of PEN International. He is currently associate editor of \u003ci\u003eSteppe\u003c\/i\u003e , a magazine of Central Asian arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008087245040,"sku":"9780863567599","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780863567599_p0.jpg?v=1763831547","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780863567599","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}