about shelling...

"They did not bomb us in the right way",  

the speaker from Gaza said as she was describing the Israeli bomb shelling on Gaza in summer 2014, 

a talk organized at busboys and poets community café in Washington DC on August 16 2015. 

Deep in my heart, I started screaming with immense pain: 

O my friend, right bomb shelling does not exist, shelling can never be right...

Art credits: Bushra Shanan

Readings from Alone Together

Alone Together: By Mishka Mojabber Mourani and Aida Yacoub Haddad


Readings from Alone Together (by Mishka and May)

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEp9V-5SAmA

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqyL1PXWl_U

the rape of a yazidi woman

May Haddad

the rape of a yazidi woman

Collection: stones in watercolors

Baabdat, 2015

Water-color:  40 x28 cm

Copy-rights: May Haddad

People in volcanic stones

By May Haddad

People in volcanic stones-2015

Colorful as the bright fires/ Colorless as the dark ashes

Collection of watercolors inspired by volcanic stones from Santorini

From the collection:

 Credits: May Haddad

Notes by Artista en residencia (May Haddad)

About being with artists/ educators Cam Lecce & Jorg Grunet at Hausegallerie 5+, Spoltore, Italy 19 May-2 June 2015

Samples from my art works then:

Copy Credits: May Haddad

Soup amd Salad from India by may haddad

Soup amd Salad from India:

these reflections/short stories were written during my seven weeks visit to india: kerala, tamil nadu,delhi, rajestan and agra: jan.-march 2001

dedicated to special people i met during my journey in india , each for a reason : janaki, jaivir, yasmine, maharana, abu, psyche, indu, samer, jerry, mohan, piers, vasantha, vikram, sonu, nasser, kitaki, mariagovani and many others

thanks for encouragements and comments: hossein shahidi, aida haddad, norbert hirshhorn, madeleine badaro, annette cotteril, munir fasheh, nancy li, may abboud, mishka mujabber and lately zena zaghloul

for the 68 pages booklet: http://www.slideshare.net/MayHaddad1/soup-and-salad-from-india
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Copy Credits: May Haddad

زنوبيا تولد من جديد Zenobia is reborn

زنوبيا تولد من جديد
و تبقى تدمر نجمة المشارق

Zenobia is reborn
Palmyra remains the star of the east

Copy Credits: May Haddad

Commemoration of Dr Hossein Shahidi 10 4 15

10 4 15 marks a year for the departure of a dear friend, a great educator, journalist and university teacher. Visit Dr Hossein Shahidi’s page at  https://www.facebook.com/HosseinJaafarShahidi

And read a commemoration at

http://www.slideshare.net/MayHaddad1/commemoration-of-dr-hossein-shahidi-10-4-15

from tunnels to tunnels...