Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Lebanese political prisoner Soha Bechara praised her feature film 3000 Nights as the 'Lest we forget' of Palestine." Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today.

The first book-length study of Mai Masri, one of the world's most well-known Arab women filmmakers Includes previously unpublished primary documents representing a wide breadth of Masri's work Details work based on first-hand testimonies and observation over many years with Masri and those involved in her work

Autorentext

Victoria Brittain, a former foreign correspondent and Associate Foreign Editor of The Guardian, has reported from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and contributed to many media. Her latest book was Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror.*
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Klappentext

This book covers Mai Masri s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Lebanese political prisoner Soha Bechara praised her feature film 3000 Nights as the Lest we forget of Palestine." Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today.

Zusammenfassung
"This book is accessible for a general audience interested in the lives of everyday Lebanese and Palestinians during the last five decades of resistance and is an excellent supplementary text for college courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, the First Intifada, refugee issues, women's studies, and filmmaking." (Laurie King, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 50 (4), 2021)

Inhalt

1. A True Story: 3000 Nights (2015).- 2. The Israelis and my home Nablus and Shatila: Under the Rubble (1983); Children of Fire (1990).- 3. Torture and Love in South Lebanon: Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon (1986); Women Beyond Borders (2004).- 4. The Green Line: War Generation Beirut (1989).- 5. The Disappeared: Suspended Dreams (1992); Lanterns of Memory (2009).- 6. My Palestine Shatila: Children of Shatila (1998).- 7. It is my Country: Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001).- 8. Museum of Memory: Beirut Diaries (2006).- 9. Let the Arabs See": 33 Days (2007).- 10. Keeping going: Hanan Ashrawi: A woman of her Time (1995).- 11. Conclusion.