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Hamed Abdalla (Egypt, 1917-1985) Kilo 101 image 1
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Lot 59*

Hamed Abdalla
(Egypt, 1917-1985)
Kilo 101

2 June 2021, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £25,000

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Hamed Abdalla (Egypt, 1917-1985)

Kilo 101
hand blown spray paint on board in three parts
executed between 1977-1982
Sizes: 30 x 40 cm , 21 x 30 cm and 30 x 20 cm

Footnotes

1. Zionism
2. Kilo 101
3. Disgrace

The present work is an important artistic political commentary on the perceived Arab humiliation suffered after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. The war took place mostly in Sinai and the Golan—occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War—with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel.

Egypt's initial war objective was to use its military to seize a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal and use this to negotiate the return of the rest of Sinai, however by the end of the war, the Israelis had advanced to positions some 101 kilometres from Egypt's capital, Cairo, and occupied 1,600 square kilometres west of the Suez Canal. They had also cut the Cairo-Suez road and encircled the bulk of Egypt's Third Armwy which led ultimately to a UN brokered ceasefire.

Israeli–Egyptian talks after the October 1973 War, which are known as the Kilometer 101 talks since most of them took place at this spot on the Suez–Cairo road. After 17 years of indirect Israeli–Egyptian discussions, representatives from both sides met for direct talks that led to an agreement that allowed solving the exigent problems, like prisoners of war exchange and supplies for the encircled Egyptian Third Army. After about a month the talks ended, allegedly due to disagreement on disengagement and separation of forces.

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