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Third-Half passport collection 2008 |
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Bearer: 1st Generation Palestinian
Document: British Passport
Context: British Mandate (1920-1948)
Authority: High Commissioner for Palestine
Validity: 1943 – 1948
Motive: Traveling
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Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian
Document: The Hashemite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan Passport
Context: After 1948
Authority: Minister of Interior
Validity: 1954 – 1959
Motive: Traveling |
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Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian
Document: Lebanese Passport
Context: Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
Authority: General Security General Director
Validity: 1977 – 1980
Motive: Escape trip from Lebanon to France by car |
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Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian
Document: Forged Lebanese Passport
Context: Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
Authority: General Security General Director
Validity: 1977 – 1980
Motive: Survival of a Palestinian during war |
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Bearer: 3rd Generation Palestinian
Document: Lebanese Passport
Context: Lebanese Prosperity
Authority: General Security General Director
Validity: 2000 – 2005
Motive: Asserting Palestinian Origin |
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Bearer: Third-Half Con
Document: Self-made
Context: Political Divisions
Authority: Auto-Security
Validity: Now - Self-Expiration
Motive: Survival
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| description:the Third-Half Passport Collection (2008) is a compilation of 6 passports, scanned from cover to cover, installed in a grid format and belonging to 3 different Palestinian/Lebanese generations. The collection is a portrait of my family’s passage through time and space in the midst of war and political turmoil in the Middle East from 1943 till the present. It contextualizes the geography, history, society, and politics of the region through a series of official stamps, visas, marks, dates and signatures of the controlling authorities. To this historical archive, I have added a self-created passport, which condenses the various political divisions that have been predominant over the different generations of my family. The purpose of this addition is to visit an imaginary space, the Third-Half, which emerges out of political divisions and the necessity for survival during conflict. The Third-Half is a conceptual space of possibility generated by both the resistance to and reconciliation of violent binary divisions. |
