Impression, proche orient
Jordan Cucumber
2010
acrylic paint on fresh cucumbers
24 x ( 6 x 1.5 ) inches
Extract from ‘Kill Khalid – the Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas’ by Paul McGeough, The New York Press, 2009, p. 400.
“…In fact, Mishal had a sound understanding of English. Although he was reluctant to use it, he would swiftly correct a translator on nuances of meaning, thus revealing his own keen grasp of the language. In discussing the so-called Jordan Option, by which Palestinians might be driven from the West Bank to live among their eastern neighbors, he jokingly called it the “Jordan cucumber” because the Arabic word ‘khiyar’ translated as both ‘option’ and ‘cucumber.’ His wordplays became political statements…”
