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Palestinian Film

A guide to Palestinian films at Dartmouth. It also highlights indexes and reference works for researching the academic literature on Palestinian cinema.
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  • Films by Director
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  • Short Films

Abu Ali, Mustafa

  • They Do Not Exist by Abu Ali, Mustafa
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    Publication Date: 1974
    "Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic."

Abu-Assad, Hany

  • A boy, a wall, and a donkey: stories on human rights by Abu-Assad, Hany
    • Video
    • Open Access Icon
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Intent on making a film, a group of resourceful young boys don't let limited resources stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are, even if that means the middle of the Gaza Strip.
  • Paradise Now by Abu-Assad, Hany
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 3255
    ISBN: 141981821X
    Publication Date: 2006
    The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
  • Rana's Wedding (Al qods fee yom akhar) by Abu-Assad, Hany
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 5155
    ISBN: B000ZKQOMI
    Publication Date: 2002
    "When Rana is faced with an ultimatum--choose a husband from a list of eligible, respectable men or leave for Egypt--she goes searching for a lover of her own choosing. Moving across checkpoints to the West Bank, finding a wedding dress in a war zone, and settling family differences all in just ten hours, Rana finds ... In Jerusalem, love has many roadblocks"--Container.

Abu Wael, Tawfiq

  • Movie poster art Thirst = Atash by Abu Wael, Tawfiq
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 9549
    Publication Date: 2003
    Abu Shukri and his family have settled alone in a valley far from their home town. Tyrannical father Shukri rules the home with an iron fist, forcing his wife and three children to burn fires all day to make charcoal. When he decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their home, it awakens their instinct for freedom, but carries with it tragic consequences for the entire family.

Alayan, Muayad Mousa

  • Lesh Sabreen? by Alayan, Muayad Mousa
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16512
    Publication Date: 2008
    Set in a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem, Lesh Sabreen? tells the story of two young lovers as they navigate dreams and dead-ends in their socially-conservative and Israeli-controlled community. The film illustrates the several layers of authority, from the patriarchal social norms and taboos, to economic pressures and the military occupation, continually facing young Arab Jerusalemites. Sabreen and Ayman dream of being together. But without true economic opportunities, Ayman will never be able to care for Sabreen in a way that her father would approve. And with the power structures conspiring to restrain their dreams, will the young lovers muster the imagination to realize their hopes for the future?

Aljafari, Kamal

  • Port of Memory by Aljafari, Kamal
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD on order
    Available on Vimeo. The history of the town of Jaffa, a thriving port city now part of Tel Aviv, provides the background for Aljafari's most recent film, centering on his mothers family at risk of eviction if they cant find proof that the house they have lived in for decades belongs to them.
  • The Roof by Aljafari, Kamal
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD
    This deceptively quiet film presents a portrait of Aljafari's family in Ramleh and Jaffa that hovers between documentary and cinematic memoir, guided by a nimble camera moving calmly but ceaselessly around the rooms of homes inhabited, damaged and ruined. The title refers to the roof missing from the house where Aljafari's family resettled in 1948, a home unfinished, an incomplete construction project.

Awwad, Nahed

  • Going for a ride? by Nahed Awwad
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #22678
    Publication Date: 2003
    Documenting the Art Installation “Going for a Ride?” made by the Palestinian Artist Vera Tamari. The installation is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the military incursions in the two towns in 2002. It focuses on crushed cars because of the powerful meaning cars usually carry: freedom, the open road, travel and movement. In the film, the cars are brought to life again by searching into the memories of those who rode them.

Bacha, Julia

  • Movie poster art Budrus by Ronit Avni & Julia Bacha
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16440
    ISBN: B004J169PQ
    Publication Date: 2009
    They not only save the village, but the Barrier is pushed back behind the Green Line into No Man's Land. In the process, Ayed and Iltezam unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary featuring archival footage of this movement from its infancy, Budrus will inspire and challenge audiences worldwide.

Bakri, Mohamed

  • Jenin ... Jenin by Bakri, Mohamed
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    ISBN: B0000VXPYW
    Publication Date: 2002
    Jenin Jenin, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting.

Burnat, Emad

  • Movie poster art Five broken cameras by Burnat, Emad & Guy Davidi
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15684
    ISBN: B009NI2XVO
    Publication Date: 2011
    5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi.

Dabis, Cherien

  • Movie poster art Amreeka by Dabis, Cherien
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #9778
    ISBN: B002T921C0
    Publication Date: 2003
    Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card, and she moves with her teenage son to small town Illinois.
  • Make a Wish by Dabis, Cherien
    • DVD
    Call Number: Available on her "Amreeka" DVD:Jones Media DVD 9778
    Publication Date: 2006
    A young Palestinian girl will do whatever it takes to buy a birthday cake. Eleven year-old Mariam begs her mother for the extra money she needs to buy a cake at the local bakery. Her mother begrudgingly relents, but when Mariam arrives at the bakery, she realizes that she still doesn't have enough. Determined to get the cake, she sets out to brave the obstacles and land some cash. What begins as a simple trip to the bakery turns into a journey that depicts not only the subtle tensions of a politically charged environment, but also illustrates the grief that can result from growing up under occupation.

Jacir, Annemarie

  • Like twenty impossibles by Jacir, Annemarie
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16516
    Publication Date: 2003
    A short film about a group of independent Palestinian filmmakers trying to make a film in the Occupied Territories. They encounter the resistance of the Israeli military authorities and their film project is stopped. Filmed entirely on location in Palestine, December 2001.

Jadallah, Ihab

  • The Shooter by Jadallah, Ihab
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD on order
    Publication Date: 2007
    In this short film Ihab Jaddallah evokes, not without a certain humor, the stuggle and the resistance of the Palestinians in these times of trouble and chaos through a whimsical self-reference. He thus also denounces the satiric attitude of a journalist, the comportment of the media, spectators and greed for violence. Critical of the instrumentalisation of the war and at the same time manifesting a new generation of Palestinian artists, THE SHOOTER is a meta-film: intelligent, sharp-sighted and skilful. (Paris Cinema)

Jarrar, Khaled

  • Journey 110 by Jarrar, Khaled
    Call Number: Permission to use the film must be obtained from Khaled Jarrar. Contact William Fontaine for details.
    In this short art piece, we see ordinary men and women placing plastic bags over their feet, pulling their clothing up to their knees, clutching their children to their chests, and setting off down a 110 metre tunnel of sewage. Jarrar’s short is shot in one of the few “routes” through which Palestinians try to enter Jerusalem from parts of the West Bank. Shot during the month of Ramadan in a sewage culvert beneath Beit Hanina (a Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem divided by walls and checkpoints), Journey 110 is visually haunted by half invisible bodies wading through fetid darkness to reach a distant light at its end.

Kazkaz, Rana

  • Movie poster art Kemo sabe by Rana Kazkaz
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16542
    Publication Date: 2006
    A six year old Arab-American boy dreams of being the Cowboy instead of the Indian on the playground. Daring to challenge the role his race has determined, Yussef sets out to become a cowboy.

Khleifi, Michel

  • Route 181 by Khleifi, Michel
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16538
    In the summer of 2002, Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan embarked on a cinematographic journey through their country, Palestine-Israel.For this trip they traced a route on a road map. They called it "Route 181", after resolution 181 adopted by the UN in 1947. This resolution divided Palestine into two states, 56% of land for the Jewish minority, 43% for the Arab majority, and the rest, an international zone. This theoretical line presented as a solution caused the first Arab-Israeli war, which is yet to end. This journey along Route 181 followed this border, that has never existed.
  • Ṣuwar min mudhakkirāt = La mémoire fertile = Fertile memory by Khleifi, Michel
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16445
    ISBN: B00019G4W8
    Publication Date: 1980
    Blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi crafts a story of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives. Shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank "Green Line."
  • Tale of Three Jewels by Khleifi, Michel
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16525
    "Tells the story of twelve-year-old Yusef, who escapes from the chaos of the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict by looking for birds in the tranquil countryside. One day his hunt is interrupted by Aida, a ravishing gypsy girl from a nearby neighborhood. Yusef is immediately smitten, but when he declares his intention of making Aida his bride, she says he must first find the three jewels missing from a necklace that was brought from South America by her grandfather. Yusef quickly formulates a plan to cross the sea in order to fulfill Aida's request and win her love"--Container.
  • Wedding in Galilee; Noce en Galilée by Khleifi, Michel
    Call Number: Jones Media Videotape 4831
    ISBN: 6301438388
    Publication Date: 1987
    A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?

Khoury, Firas

  • Yellow Mums by Khoury, Firas
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD on order
    Publication Date: 2010
    Nine year old Nizar is an introverted Palestinian altar boy and a social outcast.

    During this years' Easter, Nizar decides to compete with the village children in the traditional "breaking eggs" games. His goal is to collect as many eggs as possible in order to sacrifice them in the village church to his beloved Jesus.

    Nizar's egg is "Mashmaa" (a fake egg that is hardened by wax). Only he and Jesus know this fact. The danger of getting caught is very imminent. Nizar manages to collect many eggs and to gain respect from the village children, until finally he is caught. It would be the first time Nizar questions his faith.

Masharawi, Rashid

  • Curfew by Masharawi, Rashid
    Call Number: Available on Netflix
    The effects of a curfew upon one extended-family during a single day are chronicled in this drama set in the Gaza Community. It begins as a normal day in Gaza. Children are playing. Radar plays with them. Suddenly the Israelis announce an open-ended curfew over the loud-speakers. Everyone quickly scurries to their homes. Radar lives with his mother, his ailing father, his brother and his wife and daughter, and his angry brother Akram. The women keep things running smoothly. They have no idea how long the curfew will last and are concerned about having enough food. Radar is sent out to get some. His mother wonders if she dares stepping outside to hang the laundry. Neighbors communicate with shutters, and by peering over walls. At one point a baby is born. ~ Sandra Brennan
  • Haifa by Masharawi, Rashid
    Call Number: Available via subscription at Netflix.
    Publication Date: 1996
    Set in Palestine just before the signing of the peace accord between PLO leader Arafat and Israel's prime minister Rabin, this drama chronicles the ways in which the formal agreement affects the lives of Palestinians living in a tiny, unnamed village on the Gaza Strip. Main characters include the always upbeat former policeman Abu Said, currently a cotton candy vendor and his two cynical sons Siad, who had just been arrested by Israelis for no real reason, and the unemployed Said. Oum Said is the mother and she wants her boys to live peacefully and begin raising families and stop this nonsense about politics. Meanwhile beautiful young woman Sabah dreams of her future. Finally there is the town eccentric, Haifa who wanders about. ~ Sandra Brennan
  • Movie poster art Eid milad Laila = Laila's birthday by Mashharāwi, Rashīd
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16481
    ISBN: B002RUNNI2
    Publication Date: 2009
    'At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?' Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu's wife reminds her husband. On his young daughter's birthday, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab, armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47's are prohibited.
  • Ticket to Jerusalem by Masharawi, Rashid; Available via subscription at Fandor.
    Call Number: Due for release on DVD.
    Publication Date: 2002
    Due to come out on DVD, this film is currently only available by subscription to Fandor. Writer/director Rashid Masharawi's inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction begins in a refugee camp near Ramallah. Jabir runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. Both navigate endless checkpoints and other obstacles by looking for creative solutions. When Jabir is invited by a spirited schoolteacher to make an open-air screening in the old city of Jerusalem, he becomes obsessed with the idea of this pilgrimage and begins to investigate the possibilities.

Masri, Mai

  • Movie poster art Children of Shatila by Mai Masri
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16983
    Farah and Issa are two Palestinian children who live in the refugee camp of Shatila, home to displaced Palestinians and Lebanese alike. Following the Shatila massacre of 1982, Farah and Issa struggle to lead a normal life, as they deal with the realities of living in a refugee camp. ...

Mer, Juliano Khamis

  • Movie poster art Arna's Children by Mer Khamis,
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16508
    Also available on YouTube. ARNA'S CHILDREN tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. Arna's son Juliano, director of this film, was also one of the directors of Jenin's theatre. With his camera, he filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996. Now, he goes back to see what happened to them.

Nafar, Suhel

  • Movie poster art Yala to the Moon by Nafar, Suhel, and Jacqueline Reem Salloum.
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    Publication Date: 2012
    An official selection at TIFF KIDS film festival Nine year old Aseel peddles cds on the streets of the West Bank by day and uses her imagination, trash and a little help from her magical friends to escape reality and remake the world around her.

Najjar, Najwa

  • Pomegranates and Myrrh by Najjar, Najwa
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16552
    Zaid, a Palestinian olive farmer, is thrown in jail for supposedly throwing a stone at an Israeli soldier. His new wife Kamar, who is a folk dancer, throws herself into her work. She clashes with Kais, the lead choreographer of her troupe, but later finds herself attracted to him. She and her family then become embroiled in a land confiscation case, made all the harder because her husband cannot help.

Nasser-Eldin, Mahassen

  • From Palestine with love by Nasser-Eldin, Mahasen and Magid Camilla.
    • Video
    • Open Access Icon
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Publication Date: 2010
    Mays is 22 years old, lives in occupied Palestine and works at the Palestinian Circus School. She is planning a life together with her Swedish boyfriend, Caspar, and she intends to study at the University of Stockholm. However, the road from dream to reality is not easy. Mays is juggling between her family's expectations and Swedish bureaucracy.
  • On the East Side by Nasser-Eldin, Mahasen
    Call Number: Available on Vimeo
    A documentary that follows a day in the lives of a group of friends in East Jerusalem. Abu Daoud shares his grief and grievance with his friends. His son is due to appear in Israeli Military Court the following day. Although they come from varying walks of life, these friends share a deep-seated daily struggle against Israel's occupation.
  • Restored Pictures by Nasser-Eldin, Mahasen
    Call Number: Available on Vimeo
    We travel in this documentary between Bethlehem, Haifa and Nazareth to explore the life of Karimeh Abbud - the first female photographer in pre-1948 Palestine. Born in Bethlehem in 1894, Karimeh rapidly rose to prominence in a traditionally male-dominated profession after receiving her first camera as a teenager. Her photos are important historical records of life in Palestine in the early 1900s.
  • Samia by Nasser-Eldin, Mahasen
    Call Number: Available on Vimeo
    Samia, 71, is still feisty, active and committed. She takes us on a journey in Jerusalem and Jericho as she travels the path of a life marked by her struggle for the right of girls to education and the right of Palestinians to live in Jerusalem. Samia has lived wars, Intifadas and times of unrest and has negotiated power with members of her society and with the Israeli occupation. Yet, she has a place in her heart for the tender memories of love.

Saleh, Tawfiq

  • Al-Makhdūʻūn = The Dupes by Tawfik Saleh; Kanafānī, Ghassān
    Call Number: Jones Media Video Tape #5942
    Publication Date: 1991
    Two men and a boy try to be smuggled into Kuwait to find work and escape the poverty and apathy of the Palestinian refugee camps.

Salloum, Jacqueline Reem

  • Slingshot Hip Hop by Salloum, Jackie Reem
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 16593
    Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
  • Movie poster art Yala to the Moon by Nafar, Suhel, and Jacqueline Reem Salloum.
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    Publication Date: 2012
    An official selection at TIFF KIDS film festival Nine year old Aseel peddles cds on the streets of the West Bank by day and uses her imagination, trash and a little help from her magical friends to escape reality and remake the world around her.

Sansour, Larissa

  • Happy days by Sansour, Larissa
    • Video
    • Open Access Icon
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Publication Date: 2006
    Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. Sansour underlines both the apathy of the western public to media coverage of the conflict and the blurry boundary between that news and entertainment. (Boston Palestinian Film program).
  • Soup Over Bethlehem by Sansour, Larissa
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    Publication Date: 2006
    Soup Over Bethlehem (2006) depicts an ordinary Palestinian family, Sansour's own, around a dinner table on a rooftop overlooking the West Bank city of Bethlehem. What starts as a culinary discussion about the national dish mloukhieh being served from a soup bowl soon evolves into a personal and engaging conversation about politics -- thereby emphasizing the symbiosis of food and politics so indicative of the Palestinian experience.

Al-Sharif, Basma

  • The Story of Milk and Honey by Al-Sharif, Basma
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual's failure to write a love story. Through voiceover narration that weaves together images, letters, and songs, a story of defeat transpires into a journey that explores how we collect and perceive information,understand facts, history, images, and sound and where the individual is to be found in the midst of the material. (source : Arte)

Suleiman, Elia

  • Movie poster art Chronicle of a disappearance by Suleiman, Elia
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5962
    ISBN: B000A59QIM
    This film provides a personal meditation on what it means to be Palestinian. It examines the effect of the political impasse in the Middle East on the identity of the Palestinian people.
  • Divine intervention : a chronicle of love and pain by Suleiman, Elia
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD 3085
    Publication Date: 2002
    At the center of the Middle East conflict, hearts beat in tragic comedy and deadpan irony: a sexy young Palestinian woman defies Israeli soldiers and struts through a check-point as if it were the catwalk of a fashion show, Santa Claus is chased up the sun-drenched hills of Nazareth by a gang of knife-wielding school kids, Israeli police use a blindfolded prisoner to provide directions to tourists in Jerusalem, a Palestinian collaborator casually extinguishes his firebombed house on a daily basis, and a female ninja descends from the sky, holding the map of ‘Palestine’ as her battle shield. These are but a few of the provocative images that filmmaker Elia Suleiman puts forth in his critically-acclaimed satire chronicling the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border
  • Film poster art Muqaddimah Li-Nihāyāt Jidāt = Introduction to the end of an argument by Ella Suleiman and Jayce Salloum
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16455
    Publication Date: 1990
    Combining news soundbytes, movie clips and documentary footage shot in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the filmmakers critique Western-based representations of Arab culture. The artists cleverly mimic the Western media tableau in an exhilarating mix of fragmented stereotypes from mainstream movies to prime-time news.

Zoabi, Sameh

  • Movie poster art Be quiet by Zoabi, Sameh
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #19414
    Publication Date: 2005
    On their journey home, a Palestinian boy and his father are beset by the tensions of a politically charged and militarized reality ; an atmosphere that serves as a foil to the struggles of a father bringing up his son.

Zobaidi, Sobhi

  • Crossing Kalandia by Zobaidi, Sobhi
    • Video
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    Publication Date: 2002
    Kalandia is the checkpoint that the director and his wife must cross every time they go to Jerusalem, experiencing the humiliations and the violence of segregation. In contrast with the horror of this daily bullying, the surrounding destruction and the ordinary suffering, Sobhi Al-Zobaidi conveys, in a very personal way, people’s capacity to go on living.
  • Hawal = Looking awry by Zobaidi, Sobhi
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16955
    A docudrama about a Palestinian filmmaker who is commissioned by an American organization to make a documentary film depicting Jerusalem as a city of peace and coexistence between Jews and Arabs. While making the film, the filmmaker keeps running into situations that are very different from what he is trying to depict. The reality of things on the ground proves to be much stronger than its representation, and it reaches a point where the filmmaker decides that he is unable to finish the film. (Also on Vimeo)
  • Missing Gaza by Zobaidi, Sobhi
    • Video
    Call Number: Available on Vimeo
    Publication Date: 2006
    A group of friends from Gaza are trapped in Ramallah without possibilities to visit their hometown, they miss their family, friends and even the stones from Gaza.

Zobaidi, Qais il

  • The Visit by Zobaidi, Qais il-
    Call Number: Available on YouTube
    Publication Date: 1970 (Syria)
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