... a trend that parallels the circuits of communication that I have discerned in the graffti on the apartheid wall. According to Khalili, the “universalization of the trauma drama in the human rights and humanitarian discourse [concerning contemporary Palestine lives] focuses on victims of injustice...

... of this structure by overwriting the texts written by time, the ones that become visible only at close range: grass growing out of the cracks of concrete steps, soot-­stained exterior walls, a graffti painting of indecipherable shapes behind one of the columns, the unmistakable patina of age...