Today I get to meet the 40 PG students on the Politics of Resistance in the Middle East course whose rich knowledge of the subject already has floored me. 1 short icebreaker task & I had a week of songs/films/poems they recommended! They will rescue this term for me Will share:

Amal Dunqul, Spartacus’ Last Words https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/26934 
Nass El Ghiwane

Samih Al-Qasim, Letter from A Bankrupt
Marsam Afaf AlEssa, Love in Meditation
Ziad Rahbani, Ana Mush Kafir (‘I am not a heathen’)

Grup Yorum
Mashrou Leila, Cavalry
Zeid Hamdan, ‘General Suleiman’
Shabjdeed and BLTNM https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/19/bltnm-hip-hop-palestine-west-bank
Joe Sacco, Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Joe-Sacco/Palestine/577146
Beirut, I Love You: Isqat Al-Nizam

Fadwa Tuqan, ‘The Deluge and the Tree’ https://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/fadwa-tuqan/ 
Mahmoud Darwish, ‘On this Land’ https://onthislandfilm.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/first-blog-post/
Ghassan Kanafani, Interview on ‘negotiation’

Rafeef Ziadah, ‘We Teach Life Sir!’ Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/1276
This Is Not A Film by Jafar Panahi
Wadjda by Haifaa Mansour

Yallah Underground by Farid Eslam
Rayhana Oberman, I Still Hide to Smoke
Muhammad Bou Attia, Hedi
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Nawal Saadawi (that was a selection!)