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A Camera’s View Finder Confronts a Gun Sight
![[Israeli soldiers approaching Aida Refugee Camp. Image by Mohammad al-Azza]](/content_images/3/sm_ApproachingAidaCamp_AlAzza_small.jpg "[Israeli soldiers approaching Aida Refugee Camp. Image by Mohammad al-Azza]")
[All photos by Mohammad al-Azza.] “We were joking,” said Mohammad al-Azza from his hospital bed, “but I couldn’t take the joke.” My husband and I had called and woken up our friend, a photographer and documentary maker, recovering after an Israeli soldier shot him in the face—and these were his first drowsy words after accepting our well wishes. A day earlier, on 8 April, Mohammad was injured while photographing an Israeli raid into his community of Aida Refugee ...
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![[“Yasmine and Fatima”, C-Print, 2003. By Alessandra Sanguinetti.]](/content_images/3/sm_Sanguinetti_YasmineAndFatima_small.jpg "[“Yasmine and Fatima”, C-Print, 2003. By Alessandra Sanguinetti.]")
Ever since the start of the first Intifada in 1987, the West Bank and Gaza have become the center not only of Palestinian politics but also of international coverage of the Palestinians. On the ground, these processes of media production are collaborative and dialogical. Working with visiting journalists, photographers, and other media makers, Palestinians translate, set up interviews, and navigate checkpoints. They not only interpret Arabic; they also interpret facial ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Amahl Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics
Amahl A. Bishara, Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amahl Bishara (AB): Back Stories is an ethnography of the production of US news during the second Palestinian Intifada. I started this project in New York City around the beginning of the uprising. I would wake up every morning, and my first step would be to reach for the news. But obviously the news ...
Keep Reading »Do Photographs Pose an Existential Threat to Israel?
![[Front page of the 15 November edition of the Washington Post newspaper featuring Majed Hamdan's photo of Jihad Masharawi mourning his son's death.]](/content_images/3/sm_WaPo_MasharawiMourns.jpg "[Front page of the 15 November edition of the Washington Post newspaper featuring Majed Hamdan's photo of Jihad Masharawi mourning his son's death.]")
One of the most wrenching images from the November 2012 conflict between Israel and Hamas was that of BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi holding the shrouded body of his eleven-month-old son. His face is gripped with agony, his eyes closed as he looks upward. We can imagine that he feels utterly alone in his grief, but he must also be aware of the men around him in this hospital room. Some or all of the men are likely fathers, uncles, or older brothers to young children. They ...
Keep Reading »Degrees of Incarceration
When I started shooting for what would become Degrees of Incarceration in 2003, I had no idea that it would entail anything more than a day’s work. I showed up with a camera because a dear friend and colleague asked if I had a day to document a youth play about prisons. I ended up spending the night (leaving Bethlehem by public transportation after 4pm was impractical, my new friends told me) and then regularly returning to the youth center that organized the play. As I got ...
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Amahl Bishara is the author of Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford, 2012) and an assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. She is also the director of the documentaries Degrees of Incarceration and Across Oceans, Among Colleagues.
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