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In the opera Amal — Oltre il Muro, siblings are on a quest to reach their father in prison. Left-to-right of the in-focus figures: Rami, played by Yacoub; Sabri, played by Mohammad; Amal, played by Lina; Faizah, played by Tala. All are from Hebron. (Photo: Fares S. Mansour)

Palestine’s Amwaj Choir has embarked on an ambitious eight-stop tour of Italy, which includes performing the opera “Amal — Oltre il Muro” based on the work of imprisoned Palestinian writer Walid Daqqah.

Corrugates steel plates shaped into images of children playing and dangling from barbed wire, and painted over.

Abdul Rahman Katanani’s art is not an identification with the refugee camp’s misery, but an attempt to show all that is beautiful and painful in it, showing the camp to those who can’t enter it, those who don’t want to, and those who fear it.

In this animated short, Leila Warah tells the story of her family, who was forced out of their village, Deir Aban, during the Nakba. Leila’s story of exile and denial from her homeland is shared by millions of Palestinian refugees.