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Abu Dis, Bethlehem, Dheisheh Camp and Ramallah. Click on the images to enlarge and view captions.

Figure 1 An eagle, a symbol of the Palestinian Authority, commits suicide on a wall near the center of Ramallah. The artist, whose tag is Bash, is anonymous for good reasons. March 2014

Figure 2. The lower and upper left posters are of prisoners. The upper right is Mohammed Abu al-Thahir who became shaheed on Nakba Day, May 15, 2014. Picture taken June 2014.

Figure 3. The separation barrier approaching the Qalandiya checkpoint features large murals of Yasser Arafat and Marwan Barghouti. The image was recorded from the number eighteen bus, which runs between central Ramallah and East Jerusalem, during October

Figure 5. The image is a clear illustration of the audience both Toenjes and Gould discuss. Photo taken February 2014.

Figure 6. By June 2009 when this photograph was taken the palimpsistic process of over-painting had begun. By 2012 most of this image and its satirical intent had been obliterated.

Figure 7. A doorman at the Walled Off Hotel welcomes a guest. The entrance exhibits a bit of Banksy’s trademark humor. Photo taken March 2020

Figure 8. An image of the iconic Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish on the right and posters in Arabic on the left indicate local authorship of these images on the wall in Abu Dis. Photo taken 2009

Figure 9. Near Al-Quds University in Abu Dis. Al-Quds is the Arabic place-name for Jerusalem. The University is within sight of the Old City but cut off from it by the separation barrier. Photograph taken June 2006.

Figure 10. A serveech, or shared taxi, carrying students from nearby Al-Quds University speeds past a once impressive international protest tourist mural. Photograph taken May 2014.

Figure 11. Inside the main entrance to Dheisheh camp. When this wall was repainted by Aysar and his collective during May 2014 and as part of the process of continuity within the camp this message was retained. Photograph taken July 2009.

Figure12. Shaheed stencils of Qussay Al-Afandi. As reported by the Ma’an News Agency on January 28, 2008, Al-Afandi, age 17, was killed by a bullet wound to the stomach sustained during a clash with Israeli Defense Forces in Bethlehem. Photograph taken Ju

Figure 13. A mural of Ghassan Kanafani on the side of a taxi dispatch office at one of the entrances to Dheisheh Camp. Photograph taken June 2007.

Figure 14. Bobby Sands quote on the separation barrier in Al-Ram near the Qalandiya Checkpoint. Photograph taken 2014

Figure 15. In this reproduction of a Naji al-Ali political cartoon Handala lies face down in death as he simultaneously writes on a wall in the lower part of the image. The upper text reads: 'The border of this land is in Palestinian blood’. The text acro

Figure 16.Ahmed Hmeedat’s mural of Mahmoud Darwish. The text is adapted from Darwish’s poem 'Mural'. A recent translation of the poem reads: 'I am the grain that died and became green again. There is something of life in death'. Photo taken February 2014.

Figure 17. By June 2009 the Obeid family no longer resided in the building and his shaheed stencil, which had been on the left-hand wall was painted over. In January 2013 children pass by beneath a streetlight on the way to and from a local store. This large mural remains in 2020.