{"id":27330,"date":"2013-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/27330\/a-graffiti-homage-to-ali-abdallah"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:19:24","slug":"a-graffiti-homage-to-ali-abdallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/27330\/a-graffiti-homage-to-ali-abdallah\/","title":{"rendered":"A Graffiti Homage to Ali Abdallah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/27330.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=544176625630565&#038;set=a.318487981532765.69475.318060401575523&#038;type=1&#038;theater<br \/>  &#8221; target=&#8221;_new&#8221;>Facebook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/beirut.com\/l\/14734\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Yazan Halwani<\/a> has once again put his unique style, creative approach and, now, social consciousness into another memorable piece of graffiti art. His latest mural pays tribute to the late Ali Abdallah, a homeless man and a well-known figure on Bliss Street who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/20886\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"> passed away<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n<p>  According to Halwani, \u201cAli died on the coldest night of Beirut&#8217;s winter because he was living in pitiful conditions.  Ali&#8217;s death triggered short-lived actions to help the homeless in Beirut (for one or two weeks). I painted this mural a few hundred meters from Ali&#8217;s street to immortalize him and to remind us that we should not wait [for] the death of another Ali to help others.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  He went on to explain his choice of words surrounding Ali\u2019s image, \u201cI wrote \u2018Ghadan Yawmone Afdal\u2019 [tomorrow is a better day] while listening to a song of the similar title by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/12384\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mashrou&#8217; Leila<\/a>, in the hope that tomorrow will be a better day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Halwani\u2019s piece will act as a constant reminder of our humanity, of how we sometimes lose sight of the need to be altruistic and compassionate towards others before it is too late, a message that truly humbles us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo via Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[345],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-27330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-streetcredit"],"authorship":[170],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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