"The oldest memory of childhood that I have was drawing with a pencil. Drawing and manual arts were my childhood toys. Even the other memories that I am able to recall all relate to painting. However, my recollection of certain old thoughts dealt with the world and general life dating back to Jericho and Ain Al Sultan camp for Palestinian refugees. Although I do not remember a lot about the village of Zakaria, my birthplace in 1941, which the Israelis had occupied in 1948, it must have influenced my formation. I do know that Zakaria was a mountainous village in the center of Palestine, and its people were agricultural and sheep ranchers; this might have had and influence on my early artwork of drawing birds, cats, chickens, rabbits, horses, camels, donkeys, sheep, and anything that relates to Arabic village life, particularly in Palestine..."
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