Episode 66

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10th Nov 2024

32. (Arabic) Cinema of Palestine with Ola Salama

This episode is in Arabic! Sorry to all our non-Arabic speakers. You can watch the full episode with English subtitles on Youtube.

Is there such thing as Palestinian cinema? And what has the genoc!de in Gaza meant for film in the strip?

Ola Salama, herself from Gaza, is the Executive Director of Film Lab Palestine, an organisation aimed at revitalising the culture of films in Palestine, liberating it from the grasp of conventional European filmmaking industries and Hollywood.

In this episode, Ola and Edgar speak about the war in Gaza and the destruction it has wrought on the strip's cultural life.

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Kalam is a podcast about the culture, history and politics of the Middle East. Hosted by seasoned radio journalist Edgar Mannheimer, Kalam aims to be a source of knowledge and understanding about a region of the world that is so often misunderstood.

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