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Exhibition Announcement


Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay

Exhibition by Najib Joe Hakim

The first exhibition of my new project - Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay - will be at San Francisco's Rayko Photo Center. Opening Reception October 30, closes November 29.

The second largest community of Palestinians in the United States calls the SF Bay Area home. But what does it mean to be a Palestinian in America? How do Palestinian Americans maintain their ties to a seemingly unreachable homeland while grappling with life in a country whose political culture is so profoundly hostile to their core aspirations and identity?

Home Away from Home provides a platform for the participants to share their personal experiences. It is a multi-media project juxtaposing excerpts from the audio interviews with B&W portraits.