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Dhehesheh Refugee Camp (1955) and Doha City (2012)
DAAR Collective
Palestina 2012
Photomontage: BraveNewAlps, Campus in Camps


This image was produced by juxtaposing and overlapping a picture taken in 1955 (left side) and a picture taken in 2012 (right side). The left side shows Dheisheh Refugee Camp made of tents in 1955, while the right side presents Doha City, a neighborhood lying outside the camp borders and built by Palestinian refugees. Doha was named in honour of the capital of Qatar, the country which partially financed its construction. It is a refugee city that works virtually as an independent municipality, yet remains physically and politically linked to the Dheisheh via a bridge and social networks respectively.




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