Today on the show, we welcome renowned Palestinian multidisciplinary artist Khaled Jarrar whose acclaimed work has earned him international recognition and multiple awards, as he explores the realities and impacts of Occupation and modern-day power struggles through artistic interventions utilizing various forms of media, including performance art, photography, sculpture, installations and film. Khaled's viral and well recognized work includes the State of Palestine Stamp exhibited at the Beaux Arts in Paris, among others.

We discuss Khaled's first hand experience of growing up and living under occupation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, the epicenter of Israeli daily genocide and illegal raids angst the Palesitnian people and how this has shaped and influenced his art and self expression.

We discuss Khaled's brilliant work that explores the impact of modern day power struggles on ordinary citizens while seeking to maximmize the social potential of artistic interventions and the evolving art scene and realities of being an artist in the occupied alestinian territories. We also discuss the Jenin refugee camp which was the scene of one of the deadliest genocides being committed by Israel against the residents of the camp, during the 2nd Palestinian intifada, uprising. 

We also discuss art as a healing outlet, where words fail, for children in Jenin and across Palestine, to process traumatic events they experience living under Israel's brutal occupation and the unsurmountable daily stress, anxiety and unheald trauma through art workshops and artist led initiatives that offer means for Palestinian children to vent their trauma.