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In a refugee camp far from the sea, Palestinian artist Alaa Albaba paints fish that dream of home

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“In a refugee camp far from the sea, Palestinian artist Alaa Albaba paints fish that dream of home”

Wandering the narrow alleyways of Al Amari Refugee Camp in Ramallah, you might not expect to find a surrealist art gallery. But this is where acclaimed Palestinian artist Alaa Albaba has his studio. His subject is the fish, an unlikely motif for an artist working within a dusty refugee camp in the West Bank. The only sea here is the Dead Sea , where no fish can survive. “My story begins when I was searching for my own symbolic connection to displacement ,” Albaba tells The National . “Living in…

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