Abdulqader Cafe

Sitting in the corridor… Drinking tea and eating traditional food. Time passes so fast and the clock does not represent the time in this place, but the period that people spend talking to each other and the happiness they feel when meeting friends. This is time in this cafe. Each person is considered a part of time. Every person in this place is special because of what he adds to the cafe from talks (Sowalef) to tales mixed with the sounds made by tea spoons and small cups of tea with milk. The simplicity that fills this place is the part that makes it alive because people here are simply enjoying everything around them. What is beautiful here is seeing the joy on their faces despite any circumstance they are going through. Here they open their hearts to each other. In this cafe visitors come from all regions, ages and backgrounds to gather under a blue shade and to escape daily life problems and issues, whether cultural, political, religious or social, and when you listen to what they say, you find a diversity of opinions and ideas

The beauty of this place is the relationship between the people of the place and its tools. A beautiful picture of tea cups, chairs, tables, beads (Almsabih), blue sky, and people’s talks, screams and laughs. You see a beautiful image and atmosphere you only see in this narrow corridor. This relationship between the tools and people makes the place lively and rich in life, the simplicity of this place makes it distinctive and special. The love in this cafe shows when you see the owners of the cafe Abdul Qader, Abdullah and Saleh engrossed in providing an atmosphere of happiness and comfort to those men who spend half of their day in their Café. Their love for working together in this cafe makes the people love this place and get attached to it

When I entered the cafe for the first time and began photographing the faces and the place, I felt joy in the faces of the people there; so I decided to make my first exhibition in this place which is filled by the wonderful, precious love..