Works on Road

It is a series of photos that shows the everyday lives of the people on the roads of the Gaza Strip. These roads bear the differences and similarities among people. All differences in age, educational levels, social classes, etc. melt away in the streets who embrace all people.

People, in Gaza, usually turn the biggest and the most spacious spaces into small and narrow ones. They find the street as the only place where they can express their feelings, anger, upset, joy etc. in. It is where they share their ideas without the fear of being restricted. They find the streets as the most suitable places to share most of their daily interests, happy moments, or even the sad ones.

For example, you might find a wedding party or a funeral that blockade the street, and you should wait three days to pass until the road reopens again. Then, the children can go out and play in the middle of the street. Also, demos always start from the streets, for the mundane usually find their freedom in the street. Needless to say, they find the road as a refuge from poverty and other daily concerns in the roads during the peaceful days.

Further, some people find the roads as cultural reviving for their knowledge, past stories, etc. Then, the road appears to be the most suitable place for the night coffee conversations.

People are in dire need for this free space, as they did not get used to such spaces for multiple reasons including the siege and the long history of the Israeli occupation closure. So, they take the sidewalks as permanent places.

Conclusively, the roads of the coastal enclave remain as a mirror for the unstable conditions the people of Gaza are going through