Bron: Children of Shatila (1998)
Mai Masri
Farah and Issa, two streetwise children living in Beirut’s Palestinian Shatila refugee camp, use their imaginations and creativity to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp that has survived massacre, siege, and starvation.
Zehra Eekhout
Burst Out (2023) by Zehra Eekhout
After the heyday of the 17 October uprising in Lebanon in 2019, three Lebanese artists enter the Egg, an abandoned brutalist building in downtown Beirut. Lebanese people occupied the space during the 17 October uprising in 2019 within months of protests against Lebanon’s economic and political circumstances. In their own artistic rendering, the three artists seek to interpret their memories towards the events that happened inside the Egg during the time of the protests.
About the speakers
Laleh Al Marjani is an activist, poet and film director.
Zehra Eekhout is a Dutch filmmaker, activist, DJ, radio-maker and Sociology teacher at Utrecht University. In her documentary Burst Out she explores fluidities in East-West divisions and artistic forms of resistance together with Lebanese and Dutch creatives. Instagram: @zehracecilia.
Tania Shoukair is a writer, poet, community organizer, facilitator, and moderator. She is the co-founder of Kayan: a collective focused on exploring third culture, connection, and belonging, and Rest Resist: a community focused on fighting collective exhaustion, overwhelm, and separation. Instagram: tania__shoukair
