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French poetry book written by Reza Hiwa and illustrated by Nabil Anani, published in 2015.
The poems tell the story of an imaginary and poetical journey into the universe of occupied Palestine. The book takes its name from the word zeitoun, olive in Arabic. This tree, which nourishes and symbolises the Peace for many cultures in this part of the world, is taken by the poet as the witness of a daily life, not like any other.
The great Palestinian painter Nabil Anani joined Reza Hiwa in this project and offered some of his paintings for the covers.
- Illustrator
- Nabil Anani
- Published on
- 2015-11-01
- Page nombre
- 76
- Price
- 9.0 Eur
Rachel Corrie
Mes parents m'ont appris
Que la justice est une
Tout comme l'Homme
Et j'y ai cru
Ils m'ont appris aussi
Que le droit
Il faut aller le chercher
Dans les poèmes
Dans les rues
Et même devant les bulldozers de l'armée
Dans les territoires occupés
J'ai bien appris
Oui
Que l'Homme est indivisible
Tout comme la justice
2012-08-30#20.27
La Grotte
Il faut trois hommes pour la retenir
Un vieux
- Son frère ? -
Et deux jeunes hommes
Et la grand-mère rugit comme une vieille lionne blessée
Dont on a dévoré les lionceaux
Elle libère un bras
L’approche de son visage
Et un filet de sang coule le long de sa joue droite
Ridée comme sa terre
Il y a deux heures
Que l’armée a déclaré l’arrêt des hostilités
Il y a deux heures que les bombes ont cessé de tomber
On aide la grand-mère à avancer entre les ruines
Pour approcher de sa tanière
Son ex-toit
A cent pas de là
De l’autre côté de l’ex-route
Deux jeunes filles s’affairent
A replanter un olivier arraché
A moitié brûlé
Qui a tout vu
2009-01-20#00.34
Le Nid
A Patima Zakka
la maman de Yusef
né en prison.
Le docteur fut une doctoresse.
Elle a besoin d’anesthésie, Docteur! Elle n'en peut plus!
Ne vous inquiétez pas!
Elle y arrivera !
Elle n'aura pas le choix!
Mais ce n'est pas …
Elle avait l'intention de nous faire sauter tous
Et le bâtard qui sortira de son ventre
Le fera sûrement un jour.
Non ma chère!
Elle n'aura pas d’anesthésie.
2012-05-11#16,42
La Grotte
A Jenine
Après la victoire
rentrant à la maison
les braves soldats
ont cassé tous les miroirs
pour éviter le regard du dernier témoin
2002-05-03#23.33
Reza Hiwa is a poet, born in Tehran in 1955 to Kurdish parents who migrated to a working class neighbourhood in Tehran. He grows as a migrant in his own country, forced to hide that they were Kurds and that his parents were Sunnis. He spent his youth in this neighborhood where the country's ethnic mosaic mingled. Poverty always pushes the left-behind from the provinces toward the metropolises
He enters university to fulfill his parents' dream and become an engineer, the symbol of social success. But his mind is elsewhere. On the eve of exams, he devours Beethoven, Marx and Hugo, and instead of studying the resistance of materials, he thinks of another kind of resistance.
He fights against the Shah's regime, then against the Republic which he considers repressive. There he is in France, father of three children. Another gift from life takes him traveling across Europe.
He claims to be a poet. If you ever run into him, don't contradict him.
He finally finds his fetish book, Man, which he reads voraciously. He prefers conversations on a trail to ideological debates.
He says he was born to sow. To sow even when everything suggests he is alone, isolated and marginal. To sow despite drought and flood. He believes in the power of words. He distrusts them and he sows them. Words have changed him so many times in his life.
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement.
On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and a teacher trainer at the UN training college in Ramallah. Anani held his first exhibition in Jerusalem in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan – both as an individual artist and with groups of his Palestinian contemporaries.
Anani is a multi-talented artist, for he is a painter, a ceramicist and a sculptor. He pioneered the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper. Over the past four decades, Anani has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art.
Anani was awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 and became the head of the League of Palestinian Artists in 1998. On retiring from his teaching post in 2003, Anani has dedicated much of his time to voluntary pastimes, leading on the League’s activities and playing a key role in the establishment of the first [International Academy of Fine Art in Palestine](http://www.artacademy.ps/) (with the assistance of the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.)
--- [To know more about Nabil](http://www.nabilanani.net)