The Route Back Home: How Gaza's children use art to express the nightmares of genocide

Palestinian art teachers from the Tamer Institute in Gaza have facilitated workshops since October 2023 enabling children to process trauma through art and testimony, with an exhibition now displayed at the Old Palestine House in Brighton featuring works by children including eight-year-old Ghazi Ramadan, who was killed in April 2024, and seventeen-year-old Minna, who was later killed by gunfire. The curators emphasize the exhibition counters Western consumption of Palestinian suffering by centering children's unmediated voices and agency against what Palestinian scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian terms "unchilding"—the expulsion of children from childhood to justify political violence.