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Homeland Insecurity: Update 2

Why Aqsa?  – An Update from film director, Yahav Zohar – Yahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link > Dear friends and supporters, __________ For our next film, we plan to go to Jerusalem and look […]

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HomeLand Insecurity: Update 1

A letter from film director, Yahav ZoharYahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link > Dear friends, Thank you for taking an interest in our new project, Homeland Insecurity. The first film in the series, Jaffa […]

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Homeland Insecurity archive

2020    March – The film, Jaffa & Tel Aviv Revealed is released. March – Promo page for Jerusalem Revealed. April – Update 1 by Yahav Zohar April – Update 2 by Yahav Zohar April – Landing page created – jerusalem-revealed.com April – Update 3 by Yahav Zohar May – Kickstarter Campaign is launched

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Homeland Insecurity: Jaffa and Tel Aviv Revealed

Released in March 2020This is the first film in the Homeland Insecurity series. We hope you like it.See below for details of our next film The next film will be about Jerusalem and is currently in development. Yahav will explore the special case of East Jerusalem- perhaps the most contested and complicated place in our […]

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Homeland Insecurity – Crowdfunding

Sign up here for Early Bird Kickstarter notification for our next film: Part 2: Jerusalem Revealed Our Kickstarter Campaign will be launched by the end of April 2020 and you will be one of the lucky people to be notified early to support the next film, and take advantage of Early Bird Perks. This second […]

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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Israel’s Hilltop Youth

First published by Al Jezeera, July 2015 In late July 2015, an arson attack on a family home in the Palestinian village of Duma, in the West Bank, resulted in the killing of three members of the Dawabshe family, the youngest of whom, Ali, was only 18 months old. The firebombing also caused seven-year-old Ahmed […]

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Voices of the West Bank & Israel

Video by Mark Golden – Mark is an an American Jew in his early 60’s who travelled to Israel in April, 2013 with his wife. he was interested to hear firsthand accounts from both Israelis and Palestinians about their lives in this politically charged country. Traveling to Israel and the West Bank, he made a […]

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Palestinian Music – Beyond the “World Music” Label

By Miri –  The iconic Fairuz Music from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East is commonly subsumed under the label “world music”, a category created by media and record industries to diversify the Euro-American market in order to sell more music. In recent years, the Western music market was in fact at least […]

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The Hummus Trail – Young Israeli Veterans in India

By Miri –  It has become something of a rite of passage for Israelis to embark on a long journey after their discharge from the army. Travelling constitutes something like a bridge from the army time to a nascent adulthood of university applications or job hunting and thus a rare opportunity for carelessness for young […]

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Rising from the Margins: Musika Mizrahit

By Miri – In a previous article on this blog we already outlined the historical roots of the socio-economic marginalisation of the Mizrahi (lit. “Eastern” Jews, stemming from Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus) communities by the dominant Ashkenazi (usually understood as European Jews) elite. The subordination of the Mizrahim also included the forced erasure […]

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Leila Mourad – A Jewish Egyptian Diva

By Miri – The singer and actress Leila Mourad appeared in 27 films and sang over 1,000 songs, many of which became classics and reserved her a space among the greatest Arab vocalists of the golden age of the 20th century. Until today she is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian singers, second […]

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Palestinian Bagpipes?!

By Miri – One day I went out to show some friends from abroad the place I live in: Jaffa. That same day the Muslim community was celebrating one of their most important holidays, Eid el-Adha, usually translated as the Feast of Sacrifice. As we were approaching one of Jaffa’s main roads we suddenly heard […]

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