Lebanon
I recombine the film Lebanon. The director and writer, Samuel Maoz, make the whole film in a tank. During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town. In both, Clash and Lebanon, use of space, light, where they are connected to outside, color, and other details are cleverly selected to transfer the tense experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1GwKxp18M
Nouri a1-Maliki.
The Geopolitical relationship of the Us and Iran is not clear for most of the people. Here is an example: "Washington and Tehran don’t see eye to eye on many things, but they paved the way for Nouri al-Maliki to become Iraq’s prime minister eight years ago and have helped him keep the job ever since. With Iran now joining the United States in calling for Maliki’s departure, the embattled Iraqi leader faces a historic choice: peacefully hand the reins to a successor or buck his closest allies and use force to stay in power." Read more here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/13/maliki-used-to-have-the-support-of-both-iran-and-the-u-s-now-hes-lost-them-both/
Soon after the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings seemingly demonstrated what could be done, populations elsewhere began to smell blood in the water.
She also is talking about the European and United State's double policy about the ME and Arab movements: I think the European Union and its member have tried to say: The European Union and its member states have already said that we are defending are defending democratization, the rule of law, and so on. But at the same time, they were ready to cooperate with the old forces or security apparatuses where reforms had not come to Jude to prevent irregular immigration and to fight against terrorism in order to boost their foreign trade." Which makes a complete sense to me. Diaz starts the clash with two American journalist. Why they are important?
I was in Tehran during the Green Movement at 2008 and 2009. We believed we're making the change in history. But revolutions in the Arab countries and Iran did not meet their demands. In most, the situation is worse than before the protests. Since I am thinking what are the reasons?ُ Dr. Morill Aisburg, a Middle Eastern expert at the Berlin Science and Policy Foundation in her interview with DW magazine brings up the West juxtaposition politic toward not only Arab Spring but also Iran's Green Movement. "Signs sent by Europeans to the region, were not sufficient enough. The European Union and its member states have already said that we are defending democratization, the rule of law, and so on. But at the same time, they were ready to cooperate with the old forces or security apparatuses where reforms had not come to Jude to prevent irregular immigration and to fight against terrorism in order to boost their foreign trade". To me, it's a big part of the failure, including miss leading or lack of the concentrate leadership or policy for protesters. What do you about her opinion? Do you think Arab and ME countries can reform independently without European and United State clear and strong political support?
Zohara’sability to instill ecastasy (tarab) in the sonic community is quickly contrastedwith the miserable conditions of her old age:‘Now you can find her/ in Ash-kelon/Antiquities 3/ By the welfare office the smell/ of leftover sardine cans ona wobbly three-legged table/ the stunning royal carpets stained on the JewishAgency cot’
This actually reminds me one of the most prominent Iranian vocalists and songwriter, Delkash. She was born in Babol at 1925. Delkash started public singing in 1943 and was employed in Radio Iran in 1945. very soon after she was popular and Iranian favorite singer for her rest of life. She was a generous woman and adapted more than two hundred kids in her life. Unfortunately, after the Islamic regime and women voice ban, her life changed dramatically. Delkash died in in a similar situation 2004, at the age of 80, in Tehran
t is dominated by representations of trauma, from the Holocaust to war, fromimmigration to occupation. Highlighting the‘radical discontinuity betweenhistory and memory’, current Israeli films are‘lieux de mémoire...
Waltz with Bashir is another good example of this gap. Also the movie's documentary approach and it's switch between oral history and psychoanalysis is a reconstructive procedure. It even is more exaggerate when at the end he find himself right at the scene of the crime, is Sabra and Chatila and there is a bold shift from animation to television news footage which was so shocking. How do you interpret the ending?
The youngest generation of Moroccans, writes Boum,neither remembers cohabitating with Jews nor cares to revisit this heritage.Instead, this generation debases the sacredness of its elders’memories withthe profanity of the joke. As a category, then, the memory of Morocco’sJews already contains the seeds of its own failure.
I think the older Moroccan immigrant's suffer from the nostalgia of their relationship with oscine and nature is missed here. The Orange People shows the Grandma's relationship inspires her life (e.g. alchemy and fortunetelling).
The theme of return redefines the meaning ofmemory and trauma. Instead of being haunted by the past, cinematicspaces are increasingly haunted by the promise of a possible future, evenas attempts to build this future carry within themselves the seeds of theirown failure.
I think acknowledging past is the first step to recover and build the future. In the Waltz with Bashir film, Folman submits to his flashback, a memory of how the Israel defence forces effectively presided over mass murder. Do you think his cinematic approach to the historic catastrophe is a personal statement/therapy or represents part of the Israelis' population perspective?
which rescues the scene from the dangerof sentimentality,
I don't think it's sentimental. I am an evidence of such moments. I remember it we how he picture it in my hometown in Iran-Iraq war.
This is a figure who is presented in anunambiguously heroic light, whetherwhat is being portrayed is his role in the resistance of 1948, or theeveryday heroism that he brings to his later life as a husband and father (in one particularly dramaticsequence, he is shown rescuing an Israeli solider whose munitions truck has crashed on a bridge)
The character (father) lived fearless to the end. Experiencing what the old neighbor was claiming about life. It was interesting that he was expressing his love to his wife later when they got older, however it was kind of denial when they were young.
What Suleiman has given us, in other words, is what we would ordinarilythink of as a historical epic.
I really admire how Suleiman pictures the reality. Most of people think life in war and conflict periods are completely insane and different but the reality is people still have their lives: they fell in love, marry, rise kids, party and so on. It's hard to explain to others. I loved how he uses humor in his film to share another perspective of life in those eras.
1948
What a year! The Arab Palestinian economy collapsed and 250,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled. On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel."
Also found an interesting code. Prof. Shlomo Avineri wrote that any denials of the fundamental fact that Palestinian residents of the territories – who have been under Israel’s direct or indirect control since 1967 – are under Israeli occupation “recall George Orwell’s book ‘1984,’ in which the government declares that slavery is freedom, war is peace and ignorance is strength” (Haaretz Hebrew Edition, March 17). I recommend the Michael Radford's movie "1984" to whom want to understand the totalitarian and terrorist system. It recalls Iran's regime to me!
“Israel recognizes the civil and equal rights of Nazarenes, regardless ofrace, language, or religion.”
This reminds me of the Tamir Sorek article, "A shortened History of Arab Soccer in Israel" in the International Journal of ME studies, vol. 35. He argues that "Arab citizens downplayed the Palestinian elements of their identity. The absence of the Palestinian exiled leadership, as well as many years of worry about the reach of the arm of Israel law and the reaction of the Jewish majority, forced demonstrations of Palestinian national identity into the private sphere". I think this civil and equal rights recognition was just on paper.
Based my experience in Iran, there are other determinations for artist like senatorship and boundaries. In general extreme emotional experiences, momentums, and lack of the freedom of speech triumph the art.
Regarding the Lebanon diversity, I crossed the religion's combinations on Wikipedia! 54% Islam but 27% Shia and 27% Sunni, 41% Christianity but 20% Maronite Catholic, 8% Greek Orthodox and the rest are differ, and finally 5% Druze. Dose anyone know the US religious affiliation?