Synopsis:
Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Synopsis:
Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Mary Jirmanus Saba is a filmmaker and geographer. Her work explores labor, agrarian and working women’s movements in the Middle East and Latin America, the militant images of both regions and their usefulness for the present. Her feature debut film, A Feeling Greater Than Love won the international Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Forum.
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Tareq Rantisi is a Grammy-nominated world percussionist, composer, and educator. He has performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in modern music including Luciana Souza, Aaron Goldberg, Jon Batiste, and as a member of Danilo Perez’s Global Messengers. Tareq began studying music while teaching in Palestinian refugee camps and community centers in the West Bank and Jerusalem. He joined other educators in 2011 to found the Edward Said Conservatory in Gaza, Gaza’s first music school. Tareq’s artistic practice engages with Arabic, Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Indian, West African, Brazilian, and embracing deep study of folk traditions evident in his debut album A’hajeez (Jafra Productions 2024).
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