It was a chilling reminder that some citizens of our state – ones who live just a short drive from Wahat al-Salam – Neve Shalom – have been living for quite some time in a reality that is not normal. A photo exhibit of that name (Mish Adi, in Arabic) was the result of a unique collaboration between alumni of the School for Peace Environmental Justice and women living in Lod.
Together they photographed areas in the city that contain health, environmental and safety hazards. These hazards are a part of everyday life for these women and their children. Photographing them and displaying the photographs was an act of resistance, of telling the world that having to live with these risks, with pollution and trash, with the trappings of poverty and neglect, are not acceptable.
The exhibit had been shown in Lod, in the Mosaic Museum, and it had a special showing for the School for Peace annual Alumni Conference in the Oasis Art Gallery, with the assistance of gallery curator Dyana Shaloufi-Rizek.
