Alia Zaki

Rijal Fil Shams - Men in the Sun is a novel about humiliation, struggle for life, and succumbing to death. Three Palestinian refugees seeking to travel from the camps in Iraq to Kuwait where they hope to find work as laborers. I have used the kafiyyeh motif, cut out, not only as a symbol of Palestine, but also a metaphor of entrapment and struggle. The pages of the book are folded (French folds) and each die cut relates to the events taking place on the page. The first three chapters introduce each character Alia Zaki

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