Hunger Strikes

[Feb 2012] ‘Hunger Strikes’ was created as Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan concluded the second month of a 66-day total voluntary fast. Coverage of Adnan’s hunger strike was limited and often presented in the narrow context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We became interested in understanding the hunger strike both as an extreme feat of human physical and mental endurance, and also within its historic context as a tool of political protest.