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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 (minus production costs) to Palestina Fonds. Following the book launch, the publication will be available via our shop and online store. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer it through our distributors.
About Susanne Khalil Yusef
سوزان الخليل يوسف
Susanne Khalil Yusef is a Palestinian artist born 1984 in Germany to a family of refugees from Jaffa. In search of a safe place to build up a life, they have lived across several european countries before settling in the Netherlands. Yusef studied at St. Joost School of Art & Design in ’s Hertogenbosch, earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Fine Art. Yusef creates immersive, colorful installations by combining a wide range of media such as murals, textiles, sculptures and performance, for which she regularly collaborates with friends, musicians and researchers. Her work explores themes of Palestinian identity, forced migration, and colonial violence, drawing on research into her family history and experiences she had in Palestine. Yusef was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2022–2024), her work is held in various public collections; and in 2025 she unveiled her first permanent public sculpture in Amsterdam.
- Author
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
- Graphic
- Studio Zumra
- Release date
- 20251213
- Photography in the book
- Studio Another Day (ceramic bowls)
- Binder
- Boekbinderij Meijer
