Thread by @Reem_AbouElFadl, Today I get to meet the 40 PG students on the Politics [...]

Reem Abou-El-Fadl

Reem_AbouElFadl

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

Palestine

In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes.Upon ...

https://youtu.be/7ZuAtpDryYg

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!)

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