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A Mouthful of People
Voice of Palestine - لقمة الشعب صوت فلسطين
€ 48
In this book you will find an overview of the ceramic soup bowls Susanne Khalil Yusef created as part of the fundraising event 'Heart for Palestine', held in Amsterdam in 2025. Each soup bowl is unique and dedicated to one of the more than 400 Palestinian villages that were violently depopulated by Israel during its creation in 1948.
Alongside each soup bowl a small overview is given of what is known about the village it belongs to. For example, how many people lived there shortly before its destruction, what was going on in the village and what is left of it today. The decorations on the soup bowls, which the artist made in collaboration with friends and family that are concerned with the topic, are explained and translated.
Onomatopee donates the proceeds from this edition to a charity selected by the author.
About Susanne Khalil Yusef
سوزان الخليل يوسف
Susanne Khalil Yusef (born 1984) is a German-born artist of Palestinian heritage whose family, originally refugees from Jaffa. She lived across several European countries before settling in the Netherlands. She studied at St. Joost School of Art & Design in ’s Hertogenbosch, earning both her bachelor’s and master’s in Fine Art in 2018. Yusef creates immersive, colorful installations combining media such as murals, textiles, ceramics, video, and performance, often collaborating with artists and researchers. Her work explores themes of Palestinian identity, displacement, migration, and colonial violence, drawing on research into her family history and experiences in Palestine. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2022–2024), and her work is held in several Dutch collections; in 2025 Yusef unveiled her first permanent public sculpture in Amsterdam.
- Author
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
- Graphic
- Studio Zumra
- Release date
- 20251201
- Photography in the book
- Studio Another Day (ceramic bowls)
- Binder
- Drukkerij Segers, Boekbinderij Meijer
- Made possible by
- Aida, Amal, Carmen, Faten, Nour, Sofie Jarif, Susanne Khalil Yusef, WONNE, Yasmin (Glazing)
