

My Personal Anthology / Illustrated Memoir
A hybrid story exploring identity through non-linear narrative, combining autobiographical text, illustration, and experimental book design. Created as my final project at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design under the mentorship of Sharon Etgar, this 88-page work (20.2 × 15.2 cm) is executed in gouache, pencils, and ink.
The search for identity and it’s meaning in a place where it bears unusual complications. The book interlaces different memories and experiences I had growing up in Tel-Aviv as a daughter to a Palestinian father and a Jewish mother in a violent and racist political reality. Through the combination of text, Illustrations and design I wanted to create an alternative reading experience that challenges the conventional way of approaching a “picture book”. The narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, allowing the illustrations and the text to complete one another and to work on their own. That way, it feels more like actual memories and allows the reader to relate in a personal, more intimate, manner.