The Palestinian Embassy is probably the only nation’s representative office in Indonesia that exhibits photos of tragedies. Aside from the grandeur of Al-Aqsa Mosque, its offices are adorned with several gloomy images: a grandmother weeping over a baby, a toddler staring blankly at a destroyed building, teachers and pupils trying to carry on in a ruined school building.

Zuhair al-Shun, 58, has his offices in a house borrowed from Pertami