Told she doesn’t look Jewish, her Mizrahi gifts of olive skin and dark hair refute faulty narratives that cluster Jews as white and Israelis as Eastern European colonizers.
Artist Nessim Zalayet never could suppress his fears of living through a deadly pogrom in Iraq. His daughter shares a series of paintings that illustrate the depth of his courage.
As far as her eyes can see, a Jew of Moroccan heritage perceives an oasis of coexistence emerging within the divisive desert that is the Middle East and North Africa.