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They Do Not Exist - Film by Mustafa Abu Ali - "In the late 1960s, a group of young Arab women and men devoted to the struggle for Palestinian freedom chose to contribute to the resistance through filmmaking, recording their lives, hopes, and their fight for justice. Working in both fiction and documentary, they strived to tell the stories of Palestine and to create a new kind of cinema.”

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Palestinian women in the snow. Jerusalem. فلسطينيات في الثلج. القدس. 1921.

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Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.

I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!

I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.

I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!

I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!

My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .

A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.

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Gillo Pontecorvo directing actors Brahim Hadjadj [Left] and Mohamed Ben Kassen [Right] in the Casbah of Algiers - 1966.

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Sephardi Jewish women from Bulgaria, early 20th century

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Nozanin Jewish ensemble in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, ca. 1980s

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Preparing a Jewish bride before the wedding ceremony. Bukhara, Uzbekistan, around 2000.

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Sephardic embroidered dress in the Synagogue of El Transito Museum, Toledo, Spain

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Young Jewish woman on Passover in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1984

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"أعرفُ جروحًا

‏يبكي منها المرء عمرًا كاملاً

‏ولا تطيب."

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