This poster presents a colorful graphic depiction of a watermelon market stall in Jerusalem’s Old City, featuring two seated vendors surrounded by piles of green watermelons. The vendors wear traditional attire: one is dressed in yellow with a keffiyeh headdress, and the other in orange with a red fez. The scene evokes the historic watermelon street market that once stood outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City at the turn of the 20th century.
Anis Hamadeh is a freelance artist, journalist, songwriter, and author. He was born in 1966 in Hamburg to a German mother and Palestinian father. He holds a master of arts in Islamic studies, English, and linguistics and has lived and worked in Mainz, Germany, since 2005.