Charms of war— Abdalla Omari Syrian Art

A BOY FROM ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP
AND A CANARY FROM TBILISI

A STUDENT FROM ALEPPO UNIVERSITY

ADULTS 2013

CHILDREN WANT 2012
CAUTION:
KEEP WAR OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN

I'M ALIVE!
On one of the hospital beds Youmna was screaming: I'm alive ! I'm alive ! She kept on touching her face and arms and could not believe she was still alive.
Youmna, a little girl, has survived from the deadly chemical weapon attack on Alghuta, one of the suburbs of Damascus. 1300 have been killed at 3:00am during this attack. Almost half of the victims were children.

JASMINE SHOT
Falouji, a 6 year old child from a city called Dara'a was accidently shot in the head during violent clashes.  

LAMA AL ABTAH
On 13th of December 2012, Lama, another 6 year old Palestinian Syrian girl and her brother were killed by the bombing of their district, Yarmouk in Damascus.

LIFE - HAND

MAXIMUM RANGE. NAYEF  
Nayef, a little boy has lost forty members of family during a scud missile attack on his village near Aleppo. The missiles were supposed to target a nearby military cap set up by the opposition.

REEM 
6 year old Reem from Idlib, Syria was killed along with her father, 3 year old brother Ibrahim and 3 month old cousin Mohamed, during a bombing of Assad aircraft.

REMAINS

SYRIAN CHILD 
Hometown: Dara'a, Syria
Current address: Al Za'atari Camp, Jordan

SYRIAN FAMILY 
Four months ago,
the number of Syrian refugees reached 1 million.
Today, this number has doubled.

THE LAST PAINTING IN DAMASCUS 

TOYS

TWO SISTERS IN AN UNSPECIFIED REFUGEE CAMP
Two shy young girls posing for a Syrian journalist in Zaatari refugee Camp, Jordan.

Kids Are Watching
Try to hide more when you kill,
children are watching...

SYRI-ARTS AUCTION: 101 works of art for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon. All artworks were donated by artists and are exhibited at the Beirut Exhibition Center. The auction will raise funds to provide food, clothing, medication and schooling for the Syrian children, first victims of the war in Syria. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Kathy Battista, Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art NY.

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