{"id":599685,"date":"2026-08-29T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:40:07","slug":"sliman-mansour-a-towering-figure-in-palestinian-art-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599685\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliman Mansour, a towering figure in Palestinian art, dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TUVOP425KNCVNAGFRDFYBVAOWI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sliman Mansour, who has died at the age of 79, was a giant of Palestinian art, a painter whose work was reproduced in prints and posters, distributed through refugee camps and hung in homes across the region. In works that were by turns personal and political \u2014 vividly realistic and unsettlingly surreal \u2014 he captured and uplifted Palestinian life and history, creating art that served as a form of preservation as well as resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sliman Mansour, who has died at the age of 79, was a giant of Palestinian art, a painter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-599685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}