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Were you able to record any of the conversations with your family?
Absolutely. I’ve done many video recordings, all kinds of recordings, and I think we need to record our stories. It’s very important that they don’t get lost. Because one of the things that happens during a situation where people are dispossessed from their land, people are literally scattered around the world, and what gets lost is not just the land. When people are living in one place, that place contains them and contains their stories. So when that’s lost, the stories can become lost as well. So it’s really important that those stories are kept for future generations. It’s not just for me, I’m doing it for others, for future generations to hear those stories so they can understand where they come from, and who they come from.
So you don’t have any concrete plans for that documentation?
My feature film project is very much based on that. I’m taking that to another level. The first set of interviews were very much about what happened when you are forced to leave. Now I’m interested in going deeper than that. I’m interested in the emotional processes, not just the political processes. What does it mean, what does it feel like, the nuanced ways of how that stuff manifests in an everyday sense in people’s lives. My feature film project is very much about that.
Recommended reading -
Ghassan Hage -
WHITE NATION: ÐFantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society
http://books.google.com.au/books/about/White_Na- tion.html?id=t6SqxrAZp_IC
Elan Papei -
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Ethnic_ Cleansing_of_Palestine.html?id=pFxrGQAACAAJ&redir_ esc=y
You can find Rihab on Twitter -
http://twitter.com/rihabcharida
Contact her for further resources.
Boycott Apartheid campaign video, featuring Lowkey, Aamer Rahman, Matulu (M1) from Dead Prez - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N69oP9nrwo
BDS becomes necessary when governments do nothing. And Israel has acted with impunity for so many years. And so really, BDS is such a good and powerful weapon in the hands of people living outside of Palestine. So if people want to get involved, or if people say, ‘How can we get involved? It’s such a hopeless case...’ Well actually it isn’t. There’s the BDS Move- ment. Which means people can get involved in really effective ways. So I cannot even stress how important it is. BDS has gained so much momentum and Israeli ministers are meeting left, right and centre to undermine the movement. They are pouring millions into PR campaigns in order to undermine it, it’s gaining momentum, its a juggernaut.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/