Life in Gaza

A Gaza Artist Creates 100 Square Feet of Beauty, and She’s Not Budging

We all have heard violence and misbehaviour against muslim women who tries to defy tradition, especially in the muslim countries. The article which i came across was a peculiar one as it provoked rather unique thoughts. A lady named Nida Badwan is an artist and a photographer, who lives in Gaza. She was submitted to harassment from the authorities when she tried to roam the city in loose attire. Despite here telling them she is an artist the authorities blamed her sense of dressing an ordered her to change it if she wants to go out anywhere. Now i would have understood if she wanted to leave the place or done something like that, but, she stayed in her room and created artwork. She never came out of her room to see Gaza. In the past 15 months she only once saw gaza through skype for her art exhibition and when she went to doctor in which she deliberately closed her eyes for the whole way. This is also a silent protest against the orthodox, freedom hating world of islam from an artist. I admire her courage and wish her protest is considered by the educated people there.