Documentary Cinema in Israel-Palestine

Shirly Bahar teaches in the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University in New York, USA, and is the co-director of the Tzedek Lab network. She received her PhD from New York University's Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department.

Introduction
Part I: The Body
1. Jenin: Living with Martyrdom in Mohammad Bakri’s Jenin Jenin
and Since You Left, and Juliano Mer-Hamis’ Arna’s Children

2. Heads Held High: Mizrahim’s Coming of Age and Activism
in David Belhassen and Asher Hamies’ The Ringworm Children,
David Benchetrit’s Kaddim Wind: A Moroccan Chronicle,
and Nissim Mosek’s Have You Heard of the Black Panthers?

Part II: Home
3. Speaking Out About the Places of Palestine in Israel
in Rachel Leah Jones’ 500 Dunam on the Moon,
Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan’s Route 181, and
Ibtisaam Maraana’s Paradise Lost

4. A Mother Tongue, A Daughter’s Voice: Mizrahi Women’s
Homecoming to the Arabic Language in Effi Banai’s Longing
and Israela Shaer-Meoded’s Queen Khantarisha

Concluding Notes: Looking Towards Mizrahi Solidarity
with the Palestinian Struggle

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