{"id":969,"date":"2014-02-07T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=969"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:11:30","slug":"portraits-by-hibrawi-96-highlight-complexity-of-syrian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2014\/02\/07\/portraits-by-hibrawi-96-highlight-complexity-of-syrian-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits by Hibrawi &#8217;96 Highlight Complexity of Syrian Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Kinda Hibrawi &#8217;96 was recently featured in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/\">The Postcolonialist<\/a>,<\/em> an alternative online publication. The piece described how the Syrian-American painter has sought to highlight the complexity of the conflict in Syria through a series of portraits that also feature posts from Twitter.\u00a0<em><\/em>The article described Ms. Hibrawi&#8217;s work as &#8220;carefully crafted visages of real children residing in refugee camps. Each canvas recalls the site of a particular massacre (Ghouta, Houla) and overlays words with the face of a child gazing directly at the viewer.&#8221; According to the piece, Ms. Hibrawi, who is also co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/karamfoundation.com\/projects\/camp-zeitouna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zeitouna Program for Displaced Syrian Children<\/a>, is currently working on her next Twitter portrait, based on the Qubeir Massacre. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/featured\/seeing-syria-kinda-hibrawis-twitter-portraits\/#.UvL7laUIwWA.facebook\">full piece here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Kinda Hibrawi &#8217;96 was recently featured in\u00a0The Postcolonialist, an alternative online publication. The piece described how the Syrian-American painter has sought to highlight the complexity of the conflict in Syria through a series of portraits that also feature posts from Twitter.\u00a0The article described Ms. Hibrawi&#8217;s work as &#8220;carefully crafted visages of real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2014\/02\/07\/portraits-by-hibrawi-96-highlight-complexity-of-syrian-conflict\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portraits by Hibrawi &#8217;96 Highlight Complexity of Syrian Conflict<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}