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Cultural
Account of Palestine
"We
Are the Children of the Camp": A Palestinian Song
“We Are the Children of the Camp” opened with playful gestures. The young
actors and actresses of the Palestinian Al-Rowwad Theatre Group entered the
stage energetically greeting and jesting with each other in a carefree
pantomime.
‘Eyes
Wide Open’: Israeli Video on Palestinian Sufferingsý
To
some Israelis, daily Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation is an
unacceptable fact of life that they refuse and need to highlight with different
methods, the latest of which is using music video to denounce such oppressive
practices.
Sacco's
Comic Book: Visual Account of palestine
Palestine, which was originally nine individual comic books, has been published under one
cover this year and is heralding a lot of attention as it is being called a
“new kind of journalism.”
When
Art Becomes a Weapon: Poetry Of Resistance
The
historical backgrounds of the Irish and Palestinian struggles are significant
and help in understanding their poetry, which is a direct reflection of the
different stages of these struggles.
Mind,
Body and Soul of Palestine
Mind,
Body and Soul is an art collection of three artists who recorded glimpses of
life in the Palestinian territories and reflections of occupation on the
inhabitants. Only one of the three artists is Palestinian.
Jerusalem
Headlined HRW Film Festival
This
year a provocative film from the Netherlands on Jerusalem’s
Hadassah
Hospital
highlights the 14th annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival,
which takes place this month in New York.
‘Jenin’:
A Musical Tribute
One
of his more recent musical social commentaries is entitled “Jenin”. As the
title suggests, it deals with the awful tragedy that befell the Palestinians of
that town in April 2002 when the Israeli Defence Forces invaded the city killing
over 50 civilians and demolishing countless homes and businesses.
Film
Review: Divine Intervention
Life
under Israeli occupation is no life at all, rather a series of absurd,
over-the-top, oddly-strung-together vignettes of reality and fantasy as seen in
Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s new film, Divine Intervention, which is
making the rounds at various film festivals in the United States.
Film
Gives Voice to Palestinian and Israeli Children
Every
parent knows that children are truly the stuff of life; and a child's joy and
pain become the parent's joy and pain. It is therefore both joyful and painful
to watch Promises, an Academy Award-nominated documentary that highlights the
ups and downs of a group of Palestinian and Israeli children.
From
An Artist’s Memories: I am from Ain Al-Helwa
In
1948, I emigrated to one of the refugee camps in southern
Lebanon
-- Ain Al Helwa, located near Saida [Sidon]. Like others in the camp, I felt a need to express myself, to take part in
protest demonstrations, to participate in national events, to subject myself
like others to mistreatment and prison.
Towards
A Real Palestinian Cinema
Is
there a Palestinian Cinema that expresses the Palestinian realm now? It is
difficult to answer this question as movie productions need several factors to
exist. The Palestinian Authority does not have the time or money to produce
movies. But, what is the status of the Palestinian Cinema?
Art
In Palestine
Prior
to 1948, Palestine
witnessed little activity in the field of arts. What few attempts or
experiments in drawing or painting that materialized at the time were amateurish
in nature and had not developed into the professional or full-time involvement
which characterized artists in other Arab countries.
Palestine
And The Cinema: Palestine From The Perspective Of The Arab Cinema
The
question of the usurpation of the land
of
Palestine
will always be a Palestinian issue in the first place. The history and the
memory of the Palestinian people and the Arab world will not be changed by the
kind of reality that Israel
is trying to force by usurping the land, sending its people to exile,
eradicating their traditions and wiping out their independent national history.
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