Category: Regions
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Interview with Tala
Interview with Tala by ND ’22 and TH ’22. Tala lives in Ramallah, Palestine. She is a 2017 graduate of Al-Quds Bard College Palestine/Abu-Dis with a degree in media studies. Tala spent a semester studying in New York. She is currently working as a film editor and photographer. Her work in short film documents…
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Interview with Sofia
Interview with Sofia by BA ’22 and GR ’22 Sofia is a fifth generation Palestinian currently living in Washington, DC. Born in Santiago, Chile (and then living in a smaller town called Temuco), Sofia grew up in a multicultural home – her father’s family originating from Bethlehem. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Chile and…
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Interview with Mohammad
Interview with Mohammad by SA ’22 and MM ’22. Mohammad is a Palestinian filmmaker and freelance journalist living in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank. The Aida camp, where his family moved shortly after the Nakba in 1948, has been his home since birth. Mohammad is director of media at the Lajee Center,…
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Interview with Mohammed
Interview with Mohammed by AH ’22 and SN ’22. Mohammed is a fifty-six-year-old Palestinian filmmaker. Born in a refugee camp in Jordan and having studied political science prior to filmmaking, Mohammed fervently believes in a philosophy that films should carry a message and a potential to impact the world—and thus he creates films to capture…
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Interview with Mahmoud
Interview by Rafae Alam, Trinity ’19 and Sofia Zymnis, Trinity ’21 Before moving back to his birth country of Syria in his adolescence, Mahmoud had grown up in many countries across Asia and Europe, including Armenia, Turkey, Qatar, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and France. After finishing high school, he studied nursing while working to create arts…
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Interview with T
Interview by Thuy-vi Nguyen, Trinity ’20 and Mary Helen Wood, Trinity ’21. We had the opportunity to talk with T over the course of two Skype interviews. Originally from Iraq, T, her mother, brother, and sister have since fled to Turkey. T earned a degree in translation from the College of Art at the University…
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Interview with Jan
Interviewers: Ahmed Salat Birik, Trinity ’21 and Natali Rey, Trinity ’18. Jan is a Syrian refugee who currently lives in Greece. He was born and raised in Qamishli, a city in northern Syria, where his father owned an ice cream factory. He then went to university in Aleppo where he was an engineering student, but…
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Interview with Mohammed
Interview of Mohammed by EB ’21. Mohammed is from Gaza, Palestine, and that made my interviews with him hugely interesting. He was initially born in Saudi Arabia, but as I learned, the connection his family felt for the land lost in 1967 was too great to resist and he subsequently moved back to Gaza with…
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Interview with Sarah
Interview with Sarah by LS ’21. Sarah is a 22-year-old journalist and filmmaker from Jenin, Palestine. She is extremely close with her family, often traveling long hours to visit her 2 younger brothers, mother, and father. Sarah studied TV and radio broadcasting at An-Najah University and currently works for a web journalism organization called Dooz.…
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Interview with S.
Interview with S by AK ’21. S is from south Florida where she grew up in a very tight knit Palestinian family. Her hometown’s demographics are predominantly Jewish. She sometimes noticed tensions between the culture of her family and of her town, but accepted it as a part of life. She was first introduced to…
