An old Thyme wrap inside the school bench, left there for the dark days maybe...
في ٦ كانون الأول ٢٠١٢ كتب زاهر عمرين:
إلى حلب التي أطعمتنا لحم أكتافها كله و نامت جائعة
يا رب الجوع
في هذا الليل الوحيد كنخلة البدوي الدليل في الصحراء
أعد لنا عرائس الزعتر المغموسة بالزيت
أعطي أطفالنا حصتهم التي تركوها لأيام سوداء كهذي في درج المعقد الخشبي أو على سور المدرسة
أعد لنا بقيا غزل البنات الذي علق صدارينا ذات اللون الكئيب
وفي اسفل الحقيبة المدرسية الرخيصة الرثة
رد لنا ديننا من مواسم التفاح
من بقايا حبات الخيار التي رميناها على عجل كي تبدأ لعبة الدحل دون يدين مقيدتين
لا تنكر علينا خبزنا الحاف كله
يابسا أو طريا أو بين رصاصتين
ندعوك كما فعلنا صغارا و ظننا انك استجبت : خذ كل الحسنات وهات "خبزنا كفاف يومنا"
أما "الشرير" الذي لم تنجنا منه ....
فدعه لنا ... فنحن من سيكتب الفصل الأخير ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
SNIPER
“Crossing to the other side of the road makes me a living prey…
…I wonder: Am I a Gazelle? Am I a rare bird?.."
Few lines from a text a Syrian refugee kid wrote describing the sniper in her neighbourhood.
…I wonder: Am I a Gazelle? Am I a rare bird?.."
Few lines from a text a Syrian refugee kid wrote describing the sniper in her neighbourhood.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
More for VICHY

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Moments de Vie - VICHY
We came up with this short educational web film
for VICHY in 20 days only and it was my first experience as a
character designer, I hope that it wasn't too bad after all :)
Character Design: Yasmeen Fanari Animation: Matthieu Sivade, Yasmeen Fanari
Production Design: Anaïs Bertrand
Production House: Zorba
Client: VICHY
Psst:
(Voici quelques petites illustrations additionnelles!
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Waking-Up
Her house was bombed and now she's waking up before knowing that she lost her hand...
I don't know the name of that poor kid, but it's a true story that happened in Homs, Syria today.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Omar End Titles
Here's what kept me busy for the past 8 months, it's the end titles of a new Arabic historical series about Omar Bin Al-Khattab the second caliph in the history of Islam.
This animation is a production of Hecat Paris, but the series of Omar is an MBC Dubai production. Hope that you'll like it!
Art Direction: Chadi Abo, Yasmeen Fanari
Animated by: Yasmeen Fanari
Music and sound: Far & Here USA, Erekli & Tunç
Production: Hecat Client: MBC Dubai
Here's what kept me busy for the past 8 months, it's the end titles of a new Arabic historical series about Omar Bin Al-Khattab the second caliph in the history of Islam.
This animation is a production of Hecat Paris, but the series of Omar is an MBC Dubai production. Hope that you'll like it!
Art Direction: Chadi Abo, Yasmeen Fanari
Animated by: Yasmeen Fanari
Music and sound: Far & Here USA, Erekli & Tunç
Production: Hecat Client: MBC Dubai
Monday, April 16, 2012
Une seule Image
Here's a snapshot and a quick test of the animation that I'm working on now, two more weeks and... I'm off to bed :D
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pre-Animation 1
By spring time all the beautiful images will start blooming and forming their parade!
An animation to be :)
Pre-Animation 2
By spring time all the beautiful images will start blooming and forming their parade!
An animation to be :)
Friday, December 23, 2011

To Gaith who wrote:
"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-2 5-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48 -49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-68-69-70- 71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-9 3-94-95-96-97-98-99-100... I can write till 10,000 but my vein hurts"
Gaith Sharashi, 7 years
National Hospital for Kids with Cancer Diseases, Damascus, Syria
Public Nausea

Public Nausea, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.
Gossips, hate, lies, envy... The society is vomiting!
From Syria with love
The illustration in "The Syria's Art of Resistance" poster in Denmark at the Round Tower "Rundetaam" in Central Copenhagen
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
By Trunk Animation London
12 Nov 2010 yippee-ki-yay melon farmer
Here’s Rok Predin’s latest project, we worked with Sam at Treatment Studios to create a back projection sequence to go behind the country singer Keith Urban’s performance of his track “put you in a song” at this year’s Country Music Awards in Nashville. This had a very quick turnaround, we produced three and a half minutes of animaton in twelve days straight, there were lots of late evenings but the end of the project the studio resembled a warzone. Compositing was by Rok Predin, Luca Paulli, Rob Ward and Layla Atkinson. Artworking was by Anita Leung, Yasmeen Fanari and Ginevra Boni.
12 Nov 2010 yippee-ki-yay melon farmer
Here’s Rok Predin’s latest project, we worked with Sam at Treatment Studios to create a back projection sequence to go behind the country singer Keith Urban’s performance of his track “put you in a song” at this year’s Country Music Awards in Nashville. This had a very quick turnaround, we produced three and a half minutes of animaton in twelve days straight, there were lots of late evenings but the end of the project the studio resembled a warzone. Compositing was by Rok Predin, Luca Paulli, Rob Ward and Layla Atkinson. Artworking was by Anita Leung, Yasmeen Fanari and Ginevra Boni.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
ABCdoublespeak
ABCDoublespeak is a reminder of the evil and grotesque nature of the words used to describe violence in our world. This new dictionary does not have a filter and unveils the reality behind these words, which are masked by a positive image within the public media. Synchronized to the popular song ‘the ABCs’, which children use to learn their alphabet, ABCDoublespeak reads between the lines and shows how innocents and facts can be distorted by warfare and armed conflict. Using traditional animation, pixilation and motion graphics, this video creates a new song, ‘Our Modern Times ABC,’ that children from war-ravaged communities sing too many times and know all too well.
Toolkit: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffect, Dragon Stop Motion and Flash
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Here's few updates from 2012:
ABCDoublespeak was a real success this year!
Yes! Apparently the idea of the film got a deeper depth after the Syrian revolution birth in March 2011.
This year ABCDoublespeak was projected in Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris during the Spring of Arabic Cinema Days at Cinema La Clef.
Not to forget that it was projected late March 2011 in Damascus at the animation festival at the French Cultural Center.
During the show at Cinema La Clef
The Spring of Arabic Cinema 2012 poster

At the end of the show in Berlin
From Amsterdam
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Jayson's ABCs
My dear talented friend Jayson Gillham, a beautiful talent and a professional pianist from Australia playing the ABC tunes on piano.
Thanks Jayson!
Love
http://www.jaysongillham.com/
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Another accident at Goodenough

Vukile had broke his shoulder while playing football At Goodeough College...
“In fear of ‘Eurobia’”, 2010:
After the banning of minarets in Switzerland early in 2010, I was left wondering: “Are these pointy elements in the European landscape really that dangerous?”
Toolkit: Pixilation, Dragon Stop Motion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Kingston 2009
A View Of your Self, Kingston University 2009
Before arriving at Kingston University, students on the MA Illustration and Animation course were sent a project brief to work on over the summer. For this we were given the title “A View of Your Self”, and asked to make simple presentations about our personalities.
Toolkit: Scanned Illustrations, Adobe After Effects
Animation exercise: The lipsynic projects
Toolkit: Hand drawings, Dragon, Adobe After Effects
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