Rana Issa
Rana Issa is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the American University of Beirut. She continues to be involved in research on the temporalities of globalization at the University of Oslo. She is co-founder of the activist cultural collective SPACE: Syrian Peace Action Center, https://www.space-org.no/
Address: https://website.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/Pages/issarana.aspx
Address: https://website.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/Pages/issarana.aspx
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[T]he British and Foreign Bible Society had deposited various copies of the Scriptures – the Bible in English and in French, the Pentateuch in Hebrew, Genesis in Arabic, and the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of St John in two hundred and fifteen languages.2
To Samira, My absent Imam, always present.*
No special excuse is needed to engage the concept of freedom. Yet, it is not an evident concept or an ahistorical human faculty, or a universal political demand without contradictions. Freedom is an act of coming out, of cleavage and conflict; and it may be tragic. This text is a free reflection on freedom, closer to a tale written with abstract concepts, a story of adventure and a confrontation with all kinds of dangers.
It is a story that one writes to be rewritten.
See more at www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/ar…eland.html
[T]he British and Foreign Bible Society had deposited various copies of the Scriptures – the Bible in English and in French, the Pentateuch in Hebrew, Genesis in Arabic, and the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of St John in two hundred and fifteen languages.2
To Samira, My absent Imam, always present.*
No special excuse is needed to engage the concept of freedom. Yet, it is not an evident concept or an ahistorical human faculty, or a universal political demand without contradictions. Freedom is an act of coming out, of cleavage and conflict; and it may be tragic. This text is a free reflection on freedom, closer to a tale written with abstract concepts, a story of adventure and a confrontation with all kinds of dangers.
It is a story that one writes to be rewritten.
See more at www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/ar…eland.html
Dokumentaren Shadow in Baghdad handler om Linda Abdul Aziz, som unnslipper opprørene i Irak tidlig på 1970-tallet, og faren hennes, som forsvant kort tid etterpå. Som voksen, bosatt i Israel, kontaktes Linda av en irakisk journalist, og sammen begynner de å undersøke hva som egentlig skjedde den gangen faren ble borte.
Det handler om et Irak i opprør og å søke i politiske hemmeligheter. Jo nærmere de kommer sannheten om hva som skjedde med faren, jo varmere skildres også det jødiske Bagdad – disse gatene og områdene som jødene forlot, og en kultur som ble utradert med etableringen av Israel og den parallelt framvoksende irakiske nasjonalismen. Etter å ha levd jødiske liv i over to tusen år på irakisk jord var det ikke lenger plass til dem da det moderne Irak vokste fram. Filmen er lagd av den prisbelønte israelske filmskaperen Duki Dror. Filmen introduseres av Rana Hisham Issa, stipendiat ved Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Universitetet i Oslo.
Engelsk tekst, 70 min.