In this video, Security in Context Project Director Omar Dahi interviews Wael Tarabieh about the history of the Israeli occupation in the Syrian Golan.
Wael Tarabieh - Syrian Artist and activist, based in the Occupied Syrian Jawlan. Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. A Co-founder of the “Fateh Al-Moudarres Center for Arts and Culture” - in Majdal Shams. He has been teaching fine arts since 1996. He has worked with fellow artists and cultural activists on developing the local artistic and cultural space in the occupied Syrian Jawlan, and sought to link it to the democratic cultural movement in Syria, Palestine, and the world. He joined Al-Marsad- The Arab Human Rights Center in the Occupied Jawlan, in 2018, as a project manager for the cultural program “New ways of seeing”, and is currently managing Al-Marsad’s program on economic, social, and cultural rights.
