A long, unwieldy history of Palestine refracted in cinema at Berlin’s Arab Film Festival
Palestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in Germany
Read morePalestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in Germany
Read moreThis 15th edition of the festival comes amid criticism aimed at German authorities and the Berlin Senate for silencing pro-Palestinian voices.
Read moreAijaz Ahmad’s story may not be known to many outside a few selective international leftist circles, but it is one of exile, colonialism, and resistance that resonates in many parts of the Global South today.
Read moreThe revival of Libyan literature in the past decade has been challenged by threats, harm, intimidation and censorship. Yet, in 2022, a Libyan novel won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Read moreIntimate encounters with a few plants and people along a pilgrimage route. What visions of an alternative future appear through these encounters and how can we renew the ways we relate to and inhabit the world around us?
Read moreThe plants disclose their knowledge and complex histories of colonialism and migration, shifting the author's perception of the city.
Read moreWhat changes when we walk in different cultural and political contexts? Which (un)privilege do certain bodies have to walk and wander? Dina Mohamed departs from her own embodied experience to explore these questions.
Read moreWalking through an other, how could we access imaginary and real landscapes of memory, grief and desire? The writer follows her embodied memory and that of the landscape. Where does trauma reside? And does nature know grief?
Read moreA very delicate and intimate ritual, where the author sheds off his multiple bodies, mourns his multiple deaths and welcomes his rebirth as a pine tree.
Read moreA walk along paths interwoven between inner landscapes of grief and the outer natural landscapes of transformation, in the village the writer has taken refuge in due to the economic and political crisis in Lebanon.
Read moreMuch remains untold when it comes to grief, and much feels unheard as we walk and connect to everything by our side. This dossier reflects on the practice of walking through the writing of six artists.
Read moreIn her second feature-length documentary Lina Soualem takes the viewers on a transcendent historical journey, exploring her Palestinian family’s past, which was always a mystery to her.
Read moreHow popular music and songs are contributing to the normalization of hate and genocidal language in Israel
Read moreIn the service of struggles for the self-determination of peoples. Lebanese reporter Jocelyn Saab's images reflect her commitment.
Read moreQueerness, homoeroticism, femininity, sexualities between Arab women as reviewed in transnational Arab literature, art, and film, are addressed in Mejdulene Bernard Shomali's outstanding book.
Read moreIn her project My Fascist Grandpa, the Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio focuses on Italy’s fascist and colonial history through the lens of shared family histories.
Read moreA statement by a group of education researchers about the silence and silencing in academic institutions towards the unfolding genocide in Palestine and the crackdown on academic freedom across the world
Read moreScenes of violence at the border are well known, from migrants beaten by Hungarian border guards at the border with Serbia, to Haitian migrants chased by US mounted border patrols at the border between the US and Mexico. But what about love?
Read moreIn a world marred by conflict and displacement, the concept of 'home' takes on profound significance. Dr. Ammar Azzouz, a Syrian British architect, delves into the question, “What does it mean to lose home?” in his exceptional book, “Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria.”
Read moreA space for music and discussion, SAOT Festival in Berlin is the sound and voice of Palestinians and people from SWANA countries gathering for intersectionality and social change. An interview with one of its co-organizers, Diana Nazzal.
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