The Birth of the Logo for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

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Tamari Funambulist 3
X abbreviated the Fath to an ‘F’ with an Arrow, adding in Arabic “Towards Victory Always – Long Live Palestine!”

August 2016, Tokyo

Following the overwhelming Arab defeat and the total occupation of Palestine, including Jerusalem in the Arab-Israeli War of June 1967, the Palestinians countered with a guerrilla war: the Resistance. I was in Beirut at the time, cut off from home and family, and working for UNRWA, the United Nations Agency to support Palestinian refugees in the audio visual section. When our our film group went to the Jordan river to film the stream of Palestinian refugees fleeing the war, I tried entering Palestine. I said “Salam” (Peace) to the lone Israeli soldier posted there on the bridge. He replied smiling “Shalom,” but with his gun prevented my return to Jerusalem, my birthplace, and to Ramallah my home. Later in Beirut I worked in the UNRWA-UNESCO Institute of Education as an illustrator.