{"id":1629,"date":"2016-03-09T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/we\/home\/writer\/malak-mattar\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T01:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:47:42","slug":"malak_mattar","status":"publish","type":"contributors","link":"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/contributors\/malak_mattar\/","title":{"rendered":"Malak Mattar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Malak is a Palestinian from Gaza and just 18 years old, but she is old beyond her years, having lived through three major attacks on her home.&nbsp;She&nbsp;didn&rsquo;t start painting until 2014, when the 51-day Israeli assault was raging around her Gaza City home. Like other children, she found herself bored and anxious a lot, since it was not safe to go outside. So Malak started painting to &ldquo;discharge all of my negative energy,&rdquo; she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Malak had been given some cheap paper and water colors at her government school, and it was all she had at hand at the time of the assault. Soon, though, she discovered she has a budding talent and loved the self-expression the &ldquo;colors&rdquo; allowed. She has been painting ever since, although now with acrylics on canvas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Malak currently lives in Istanbul, where she is studying on scholarship.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1630,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malak Mattar - We Are Not Numbers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/contributors\/malak_mattar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malak Mattar - We Are Not Numbers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malak is a Palestinian from Gaza and just 18 years old, but she is old beyond her years, having lived through three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/contributors\/malak_mattar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"We Are Not Numbers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WeAreNotNumbers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-11T01:47:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0cc25-rsz_malak_photo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@WeAreNotNumbers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/contributors\/malak_mattar\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wearenotnumbers.org\/contributors\/malak_mattar\/\",\"name\":\"Malak Mattar - 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