Murals

Murals by Caleb Wassell, including the Windows into the Homeland series.

Nazareth, Red Roofs and the Domed Church, mural by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a hilltop town of red roofs with a domed church in the foreground.
Nazareth
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Akka, The Harbor Wall, mural by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a coastal fortress wall with palm trees overlooking a harbor and old city.
Akka
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Jericho, Cliffside Monastery, mural by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a monastery built into a sheer rocky cliff above the sea.
Jericho
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Gaza City, Seaside Boulevard, mural by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a seaside boulevard with a domed mosque, palm trees, and high-rise buildings.
Gaza City
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Light over Al-Quds, mural by Caleb Wassell: sun rays break through blue clouds over the golden Dome of the Rock, cypress trees and the Old City walls of Jerusalem, Palestine.
Light over Al-Quds
Las Ideas No Se Matan, mural by Caleb Wassell: a fist raising a machete over waving Palestinian and Cuban flags beneath the words Las ideas no se matan, with Levántate por Cuba below.
Las Ideas No Se Matan
Eyes on Silwan, mural by Caleb Wassell: two large purple eyes above the words Eyes on Silwan and a row of red poppies with eyes on a white brick wall.
Eyes on Silwan
The Taboon, mural by Caleb Wassell: a Palestinian grandmother in an embroidered thobe and white headscarf bakes bread at a stone taboon oven beneath an olive tree.
The Taboon
Gaza on My Mind, mural by Caleb Wassell: the full wrap-around restaurant wall painted with red desert cliffs, camels, a Bedouin tent and rug, an elderly couple cooking, and two men sharing coffee beneath the lettering Gaza on My Mind.
Gaza on My Mind
Gaza on My Mind, Bedouin Camp, mural by Caleb Wassell: an elderly couple cooking over a fire beside a striped rug and a black Bedouin tent below red desert cliffs.
Gaza on My Mind, Bedouin Camp
Gaza on My Mind, Camel Rest, mural by Caleb Wassell: a man in a yellow robe and gray head wrap rests beside a kneeling camel, with a woman carrying a jar on a desert path below red cliffs.
Gaza on My Mind, Camel Rest
Gaza on My Mind, Desert Coffee, mural by Caleb Wassell: two Bedouin men in keffiyehs share Arabic coffee beside a tent and camel beneath the lettering Gaza on My Mind.
Gaza on My Mind, Desert Coffee
Beit Duqqu Mural, mural by Caleb Wassell: the finished community wall in Beit Duqqu, Palestine with the village name in Arabic, women carrying jars, an elder in a keffiyeh, the Dome of the Rock and red poppies, with the painters seated on top.
Beit Duqqu Mural
Beit Duqqu Mural, In Progress, mural by Caleb Wassell: community members paint a wall in Beit Duqqu, Palestine with women carrying clay jars, an olive tree, an elder in a keffiyeh, the Dome of the Rock, poppies, figs and pomegranates.
Beit Duqqu Mural, In Progress
Beit Duqqu Mural, Detail, mural by Caleb Wassell: women carrying clay jars, an olive tree, children with a donkey and kite, a hand holding grapes, an elder in a keffiyeh and red poppies beneath the village name in Arabic in Beit Duqqu, Palestine.
Beit Duqqu Mural, Detail
Beit Duqqu Mural, With the Young Painters: Caleb Wassell with the young painters in front of the finished Beit Duqqu mural in Palestine, with the Dome of the Rock, an elder in a keffiyeh, figs and pomegranates.
Beit Duqqu Mural, With the Young Painters
From Chicago to Palestine: We Remember. We Rise., banner by Caleb Wassell: the Chicago skyline and lakefront flowing into olive groves and Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock, hung above a rally stage.
From Chicago to Palestine: We Remember. We Rise.
Rooftop over Jerusalem, The Minaret, mural by Caleb Wassell: a man in a keffiyeh looks out from an arched rooftop terrace over the hills and a minaret of Jerusalem at sunset, with potted plants and a coffee table.
Rooftop over Jerusalem, The Minaret
Rooftop over Jerusalem, The Dome, mural by Caleb Wassell: a woman in an embroidered thobe sits at a coffee table on an arched rooftop terrace facing the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem at sunset.
Rooftop over Jerusalem, The Dome
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Island Storefront, hand-painted sign by Caleb Wassell: a black sign with a vase of tropical flowers and gold lettering installed above the shop windows of a Chicago florist.
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Island Storefront
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Island, hand-painted sign by Caleb Wassell: a vase of tropical flowers with birds of paradise, roses, lilies and protea above gold lettering on a black board.
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Island
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Bouquet, painting by Caleb Wassell: close-up of red roses, pink lilies, birds of paradise, protea and heliconia against a black background.
Flowers Unlimited Tropical Bouquet
Flowers Unlimited Sign, hand-painted sign by Caleb Wassell: gold and green lettering with a golden rose, the phone number and website on a black board.
Flowers Unlimited Sign
From Chicago to Palestine, detail of the banner by Caleb Wassell: the words We Remember. We Rise. between the Chicago skyline and the Dome of the Rock, seen behind a woman in an embroidered thobe.
From Chicago to Palestine, Detail
From Chicago to Palestine, banner by Caleb Wassell hanging above a speaker at a Chicago rally for Palestine, with Palestinian flags raised in the crowd.
From Chicago to Palestine, at the Rally
Coffee Branches, theQahwa, mural by Caleb Wassell: a line drawing of coffee branches with cherries, leaves and blossoms painted in copper on a white cafe wall.
Coffee Branches, theQahwa
Al Manakeesh Storefront Murals by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: painted windows along the Al Manakeesh Taste of Palestine storefront showing Nazareth, Akka, Jericho, Gaza City and a grandmother baking bread at a taboon.
Al Manakeesh Storefront Murals
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
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