Necessary Journey

Necessary Journey

Ashery visited Israel and Palestine over a period of two months in order to research and explore her family history as indiginious Jews in Palestine and to meet the Palestinian artist and architect Sameh Abboushi in Rammallah. Ashery and Abboushi exhcanged emails over a number of months disccusing the issues of home, family, art and the effects of the occupation.

The travel diary charts a journey through Ramallah, the Old city in Jerusalem and Pqiain; a village inhabit by mainly Druze as well as Muslims, Christians and Jews.

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