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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening "Father and Son"
DESCRIPTION:DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\nThe Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds invite
 s you to the opening of \n\n\nal Ab w’al Ibn\nFather and Son\n\npa
 intings by Zahi and Besan Khamis\n\n\nOpening Reception:\nFriday\, 1 M
 ay\, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.\n\nThe opening will also feature Baltimore poet
  Kim Jensen\nreciting some of her works. Here is an excerpt:\n\nBreath Ho
 lding Contest (in Southern Lebanon)\n\n"I’ve tried with others to end th
 e brutality of wars and to find fullness in a life that leaves us all empt
 y handed      in one way or another."\nFor the first time\, Gallery A
 l-Quds presents art from two generations\, that of Palestinian painter Z
 ahi Khamis and his son Besan.\n\nInfluenced by the modernist styles of P
 icasso and Matisse as well as the Mexican muralists\, Zahi’s work is par
 t of the long tradition of committed art. His bright\, optimistic colors c
 ombined with the tragic expressions of his subjects\, express the painful\
 , yet luminous\, contradictions of all those who struggle for liberation.\
 n\nBesan Khamis is a third-year undergraduate art student at the Maryland 
 Institute College of Art (MICA)\, and a graduate of the Baltimore School f
 or the Arts. He is an interdisciplinary sculpture major\, and is working i
 n a variety of disciplines: music\, sound\, painting\, installation\, 3D d
 igital fab\, and video.\n\nKim Jensen is a writer\, educator\, and politi
 cal activist who has lived in France\, California\, and the Middle East. S
 he and her husband Palestinian painter Zahi Khamis have been involved in h
 uman rights and social justice movements for many years. Kim’s first nov
 el about a turbulent love affair between a Palestinian exile and an Americ
 an student\, The Woman I Left Behind\, was published in 2006 by Curbstone
  Press and was finalist for Forward Magazine’s book of the year award. H
 er two collections of poems\, Bread Alone and The Only Thing that Matte
 rs were both published by Syracuse University Press\, in 2009 and 2013. A
 cclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye calls Kim’s poems "searing and spare." Sh
 e adds: "They will haunt you and stretch your vision. You won’t be the s
 ame person after reading them that you were before." In 2001\, Kim won the
  Raymond Carver Prize for Short Fiction\, and her writings have appeared i
 n many books\, anthologies\, and journals.\n\n
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