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Mohsen Ghareeb

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MADE IN ISRAEL

Language is a form of communication used by people of different races and trends to explain facts and exchange cultures, etc. Despite the importance of (this) language, it is sometimes used in situations that don't serve humanity through reality distortion, changing facts and hiding matters that must be made clear to other parties. In some instances, equivocation (use of a term with more than one meaning) is used to mislead the other party.

The issue that I would like to raise is the importance of the language used to promote goods from a country that is economically and culturally boycotted by Arab and Islamic countries, while they had announced a policy of non-normalistion and declared they would stop economic relations with this country.

However, some countries have established direct commercial relations with this country, while others import its goods through an intermediate country. Some markets in other countries are swamped with Israeli products after changing the name of the country of origin to avoid a boycott. According to statistics in this regard, this system allows to raise the trade balance ceiling limit through misleading language.

If misused, language can have serious dimensions. In language, there's no such thing as absolute truth.

© Photo: Ammar Hammad

 
 

 

Alsajanjal
Group exhibition in Bahrain on the concept of "language". Artworks, statements, curator's text. By Anas Al-Shaikh, December 2010

Mohsen Ghareeb
* 1971 Bahrain; lives there.
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