TASHARUK

GENDER, CULTURE AND RESISTANCES IN PALESTINE

النوع والثقافة والمقاومة في فلسطين

Layaly Badr

Layaly Badr

Layaly Badr is a Jordanian filmmaker of Palestinian origin. She started working as a children’s story writer and screenwriter before starting to study film in Germany. She has published two books, Lobana wal Qamar and Nahr wa Shajara. Layaly Badr has won several...
Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir (1972) is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She directs and founded the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir research centre for Art and Research in Bethlehem. Her work, transdisciplinary and difficult to catalogue, focuses on the present moment even though she also...
Azza El-Hassan

Azza El-Hassan

Azza El-Hassan (1971) has degrees in Cinema and Sociology. She works mainly on documentaries and in recent years has specialised in archival film. She is an artistic consultant for the Creative Interruptions project. In 1996, she made her first documentary on...
Sulafah Jad Allah

Sulafah Jad Allah

Sulafah Jad Allah (1941) studied film at the Cairo Film Institute in the early 1960s. She was hired by the Fatah movement to create portraits of fedayeen (guerrilla fighters) before they embarked on missions from Gaza to occupied Palestine. To that end, she...
Reem Shilleh

Reem Shilleh

A researcher, curator, editor and artist, Reem Shilleh’s practice is informed by a long research project on militant and revolutionary image practices in Palestine, its diaspora and its solidarity network. Reem Shilleh’s research expands a notion of an imperfect...