“The River Room Herzl impresses with the unique charm of its furnishings. To this day, this simple and fascinating room with a view of the Rhine provides inspiration and peace (approx. 22 m2)." Description of the River Room Herzl on the website of Hotel Les Trois Rois, Basel "The bed was also very comfortable; there was a sky painted on the ceiling that you see when you lie in bed; it gave me a Sistine Chapel feeling and another bronze portrait of Herzl hung on the wall of the room. Unfortunately, the room did not meet my high expectations, and I did not manage to have any dreams when I slept in that bed that night." - Swiss Palestinian association If you Force it, it is no Dream text by Hamza Badran In Basel. "I have struggled to understand why Zionism is a topic for celebration in Switzerland. When I arrived in Basel in 2018, I took a walk through the city and noticed a tourist gift store that I assumed had something to do with Basel. The gift store was in Stadtcasino Basel, where the first Zionist congress was held in 1897. When I went in, I noticed a bronze cast portrait of Theodore Herzl covered in glass. While I knew that the first Zionist Congress had been held in Basel, I didn’t realize it was also a cause for jubilation. When I asked about the bronze print in the Stadtcasino, the woman working there asked me if I was from Israel. I said no, I was from Palestine. She «Oh...» In the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, where Herzl stayed in 1901 during the fifth Zionist Congress, his room is still well preserved and named after him: River Room Herzl."

Sitography: BADRAM, Hamza, "If you Force it, it is no Dream", www.palaestina.ch, 2024. Online available:
www.palaestina.ch/images/gsp-pdf/Hamza_ArtBasel_2024_Herzl.pdf

GIAN MARCO CASINI GALLERY, "Hamza Badran", www.gmcg.it
Online available at
gmcg.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Hamza-Badran-works.pdf

SWISS PALESTINIAN ASSOCIATION, "Hamza Badran aka Herzl 2.0 an der Art Basel 2024", www.palaestina.ch, 2024
www.palaestina.ch/it/documenti-it/846-hamza-badran-aka-herzl-2-0-an-der-art-basel-2024