Means of Our Return, Lebanon, ca. 1975

HASSIB AL JASSEM (1951-2013)

Translated: (Red Text) “Our weapons are the means of our return,” (White Text): “And (they are) our constant companions until the liberation of Palestine”

Details of the artist are mostly unknown.

Means features a fighter walking towards a map of Palestine with superimposed crosshairs. Text in red affirms the necessity of armed resistance as the “means of return.” Al Jassem represents resistance as a pathway (seen by the fighter’s trailing footsteps), evoking the literal movement required to reclaim land but also the historical continuity of the struggle for liberation

poster: https://www.palestineposterproject.org/posters/means-our-return

citations: https://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/rev_linke/sanat/jihad/jihad.ht