Faisal Abbas 
Because of the closures and invasions of the Israeli occupation army for Palestinian cities, villages and camps, the “Palestinian Museum” in Birzeit began receiving visitors to the “Umm Aini” exhibition of French photographer Jose Dry (1953) since yesterday, Tuesday, without an official opening organization.
The exhibition includes a selection of the photographic archive that defines itself as a “resistance photo”, where it documents the normal, daily and epic moments in the lives of the Palestinians, their steadfastness, their cohesion, and their resistance, for nearly four decades in addition to the lives of refugees in the refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria.
The oldest pictures taken by Dary dates back to 1987, when she chose to go to Palestine to photograph the uprising that started in that year, and began telling the daily stories to resist the Palestinian people that she presented in many exhibitions, and also included them in books and publications issued in succession.
The exhibition documents the normal, daily and epic moments in the lives of the Palestinians
In an interview conducted by the Palestinian novelist and critic Salim Al -Buk, the museum publishes it on his YouTube channel, that she portrayed the private life of the Palestinians, even their political lives, how society and the people develop and how it struggled, as well as the funerals that were a demonstration in which Palestinian women participated in their banners. He explained that few people have regularly portrayed moments of the history of the Palestinian people. The images face “Israel”, which deny its existence and even the massacres against him, and do not allow his voice to be heard.
The images displayed over a long period of time are varied in documenting the atrocities of the Israeli army, and also followed by the Palestinian resistance acts and its leaders, as well as documenting them in the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, then the first uprising and the period that followed the signing of the Oslo agreement to the Al -Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
The statement of the organizers notes that “this exhibition is not merely a set of photographs, that it is a living archive of an interrelated relationship between the past and the present, with which we re -understand the past and conceive the future, which revolve in a circle” that begins only to end, and ends only to continue, “as Ghassan Kanafani says.”
It is noteworthy that Jose Dry issued its archive in a number of publications, including: “Jenin’s notes, 1989-2002”, “New Jerusalem Gates, Israel in the Time of Apartheid” (2002, 2003), and “Palestine between the Zarza of the sky and the sand of memory” (2001), and the “Second Palestinian Intifada” of Ramzi Baroud (2012) included a group of its pictures, in addition to its participation in writing the book “Return to Jenin, a living history of a camp Refugees with its residents (2020).
