Primavera araba e Cinema Once upon a time in Syria, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 1’01” Vanguard, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 1’22” Rima, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 1’31” Un-Holiday, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 1’53” Under Damascus’ sky, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 1’40” The End, Collectif Abounaddara, Syria, 2011, 3’12” Confessions tunisiennes, Imen Ben Mlouka, Tunisia, 2011, […]
The Syrian Who Wanted the Revolution, Part Seven: The Salvation – The Nation, March 18, 2016 This week [March 18-24, 2016] marks the fifth anniversary of the Syrian revolt. It’s nearly impossible to fathom the destruction unleashed on this country that, we must admit, no longer exists as a country. Syria is fractured and destroyed, […]
Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance The Athens Municipality Arts Center in Parko Eleftherias (Freedom Park) and the Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance belong to a nineteenth-century complex of military barracks whose recent history is linked to the repressive military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974, […]
Detainees in the Syrian regime’s prisons are subjected to “extermination” according to UN investigators. And the most undignified images of that extermination were exhibited at the UN in March 2015, without the world even lifting a finger. So stop exhibiting indignity, which endorses apathy, and instead show the Syrian struggle for dignity. That is the […]
[This post was made a day later – on Saturday March 7, 2026 not Friday March 6, 2026 – because I was at the National Art Education Association annual conference, where I delivered my presentation ‘Insistence as Radical Empathy’. Even though I re-post the films of Abounaddara without a direct connection to the filmmakers, my […]
Abounaddara Collective’s Journey in Winter – Aesthetics of Material Absence Another view of the journey’s materiality as a narrative of dissent comes from the short film Journey in Winter by the Abounaddara collective, which operates from inside Syria. The collective is made up of a group of anonymous Syrian filmmakers whose works have raised awareness about the political and […]
The Syrian who wanted the Revolutionby Abounaddara The Syrian who wanted the revolution is not in opposition. S/he does not belong to the system of opposition, the product of a power struggle in Assad’s Syria. S/he did not go out onto the streets to bring down the regime, but rather to shout: “Thieves, thieves” and […]
