Listen, Read, Watch: Palestine
During our much-needed winter break, we published a series called #ListenReadWatch on Instagram, curated by the afikra community. Each featured one album, one book, and one film from somewhere in the Arab world. It was a way to get recommendations of things to listen, read, and watch during the holidays, and to celebrate some of the best creative minds from across the region and times.
Listen: The Holy Land, Lana Lubany
Read: Les Palais Des Deux Collines
“In this dark yet exquisite first novel, Karim Kattan explores the disturbing labyrinths of politics and memory. In this novel set beneath the almond trees in bloom, Palestine is reinvented as the intimate and forever untamed site of the wildest literary imagination.”
Watch: Bye Bye Tiberias
“Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village of Deir Hanna in Galilee to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. But she returned to her village every summer, together with Lina, the daughter she gave birth to in Paris, and all their trips were tenderly filmed. Lina is now in her thirties. Camera in hand, she reassesses the bold choices her mother made, and also explores the personal journey of several other female family members, whose stories connect with different periods in history. This inevitably leads to the fateful year of 1948, which is inextricably bound up with the lives of the women.”
