Aref ElRayesss The 5th of June or The Changing of Horses was exhibited at the Salle de LOrient in the city center of Beirut in April 1968. Dima wa Hurriyya Blood and Freedom the itinerant solo exhibition in which the painting first appeared was held just nine months after the colossal Arab defeat in the June 1967 war. The work represented the defeat as an opportunity to fervently commit to the struggles that the war served to highlight namely the emancipation from bondage colonialism and capita