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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

Victoria Brittain author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:15th Feb '21

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This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Lebanese political prisoner Soha Bechara praised her feature film 3000 Nights as “the ‘Lest we forget’ of Palestine." Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today.

“This book is accessible for a general audience interested in the lives of everyday Lebanese and Palestinians during the last five decades of resistance and is an excellent supplementary text for college courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, the First Intifada, refugee issues, women’s studies, and filmmaking.” (Laurie King, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 50 (4), 2021)

ISBN: 9783030375249

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144 pages

1st ed. 2020