Check out this article by Jim Quilty for The Daily Star, on the video letter "From Beirut to ... Those Who Love Us," and a new one called "Dead Time," from the Beirut Development and Cinema film collective. (Quilty probably wouldn't want anyone to know, but for awhile he was a Hawg--doing graduate work in History at the University of Arkansas in the late nineties. I think he made a good career choice, switching to journalism. Although now, in Beirut?)
Says Christine Tohme of Ashkal Alwan: "The 1982 invasion had news coverage but very little art came out of it. One thing we can do is make sure that isn't the case this time as well. Resistance isn't something new to us: It's been embedded in all our work since long before this war began."
Check out the two video letters here. (Earlier posting here.)
Tags: Lebanon, Beirut
"he made a good career choice, switching to journalism. Although now, in Beirut?"
ReplyDeleteYes, people forget that Karl Marx was only ever a professional and often freelance journalist, more than once writing for the New York Times.
Where else for a journalist but in Beirut? A group of Moroccan journalists who were in Beirut for a conference got evacuated against their wishes--they wanted to stay and cover it, but they got the boot anyway...