A garden outside the garden.....

"Bougainvilleas"(Majnoonah in Arabic,meaning crazy) are really common in allmost every Palestinian garden.In a diversity of almost six colors, it decorates garden walls and leaves its' bounderies to decorate pavement walls  thus providing  a shady garage for passers-by.......... cars. picture by Haifa Shawwa

Cabeena

Back in the  late sixties in Gaza,a culture of "Cabeenas" prevailed.A Cabeena is a beach house, a simple one, but with one or two bedrooms, a tiny toilet(wouldn't call it a bathroom), a mini-kitchenette, normally a sink, open shelves and a simple cooker), and a terrace overlooking the beach.
Families who owned Cabeenas would gather there for a day, eating, swimming and enjoying the Mediterranean  breeze.

This beautiful photo by artist Ramon Vila,  is a typical whitewashed Greek village beach house terrace.But primitive summer/beach houses in Gaza "Cabeena"  looked just the same..They were either made of whitewashed concrete, or simply of palm branches supported by iron poles.
Those were days........! Painting by Ramon Vila