Basel Adra
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Ich habe mehr von Rachel Lee von der BBC Korean Service.
Global News Podcast
Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Sattler-Soldaten fangen ihre Waffen an uns mit Lichtern, Lasern auf unsere Augen und Füßen, während der andere Gruppe von Sattlern auf der Rückseite Steine aus verschiedenen Richtungen an uns schießt. Ich fuhr in diese Richtung. Hamdan kam zu seinem Haus, wo seine Frau und Kinder waren. Er schloss die Tür. Der Sittler erkannte Hamdan und erkannte ihn von vorher und attackierte Hamdan vorher.
Global News Podcast
Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Er begann, ihn physisch mit den Soldaten zu attackieren. Hamdan schrie, ich brauche eine Ambulanz, ich brauche Hilfe.
Global News Podcast
Sudan’s army retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF
Seit Anfang Januar gab es 45 Angriffe, wie die Angriffe von gestern. 45 Angriffe. Es geht nur weiter. Und das ist wie verrückt und erhöht und in verrückten Nummern erhöht.
It's Been a Minute
Is Hollywood soft censoring Palestinian art?
About two months ago, I became a father and my hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I'm living now.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
You can see the story of Haroon Abaram, a guy like our age who was shot in his neck by Israeli soldiers just because he tried to protest the soldiers taking the generator that his family used for electricity. And he was paralyzed for two years and then passed away due to his injury.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Yeah, around the world we're like very emotional and a lot of time we'd like cry and also stand up and greet us. And it's like amazing, I think. We didn't thought, to be honest, when we were working on this movie that we will get this amount of awards and be nominated for the Oscar, which is all important for the movie and the story itself.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
But on the other side, it's sad because we made this movie from a perspective of activism to try to save the community, to try to have political pressure and impact for the community itself. But unfortunately, all the reality today is changing the opposite side, which is to be more miserable and bad. The reality on the ground. Yes. Yes.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Well, we did this movie, again, from the perspective of activism. And for real, we want to change people's minds. Because many of the people that are going to watch this are somehow responsible. Because this is their money, this is their government, this is their countries that are supporting this reality and supporting the ongoing occupation.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Even if in their words we'll not say it, but in their actions, this is what they do. And so we want these people to understand and to inspire them and to encourage them that they should take part in this, in any kind of action, small, big protest, pressure.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
So I was born in a small community in the southern occupied West Bank, Masaf Riata, in my little small village called Al-Dwani. I was born and raised there. My parents are like the other families in Asaf Riata are farmers, like keep sheep and cultivate the land. And this is how the people lives in our area.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
But today, their life, it's different, for sure, because we don't have access to majority of the land due to the settlements and military bases are built on our land for this past decade. So my parents all the time were like activists and were trying to change the reality that we are living in, as you saw a little bit of the stories in the No Other Land documentary.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
So for me, it wasn't the idea from the beginning. I started like when I was a teenager to take a camera and document what's going on around me and to me, to my family, to the community that I live in in order to have the evidence.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
And as well, I was like a bit kind of angry and want the world to know that we face what we face and we're living in these conditions and people should care about what's happening to us and it should not continue.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
So some of them we used for social media. All of them are in our archive. On our hand, some of the footage that we got helped different people in court cases as evidence and as a proof against the claims of the settler soldiers when they tried to lie about certain incidents. So we would have evidence that we filmed that incident to show to the judge or to the court.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
This is what we do mainly to film what's going on and to move in the field with families, with school students during demolitions. And then Yuval and Rachel came to Masafriyatta five years ago.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
And then Yuval and Rachel kept coming to Masafriyatta almost weekly. And the relationship became stronger because we spent more time together and in the field, in the house. And then Hamdan actually had the idea and said, when we were sitting together, like, guys, let's make a movie documentary about all the footage that we have. We didn't have...
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
experience in doing so all of us but we all agreed in the idea and we started this project like five years ago together and we released the movie february 2024 yeah it seems that as filmmakers basel one of the great assets advantages that you had and i i don't say this is a joke
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Yeah, actually, you're right. And I remember now in 2021, it was, to be honest, maybe the biggest physical attack against the community that ever I filmed in my life. I got like a phone call and there was like almost 60 to 80 masked settlers with guns. They were like smashing windows and throwing rocks inside the houses at the people, at cars.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
And people were like literally fleeing from their homes to the valleys and to the fields and trying to run away from the settlers. I stood kind of... Less than 50 meters in front of about like 15 to 20 masked settlers. They were like smashing a home and two cars near it. One of the settlers saw that I'm filming and he called others and they start to run after me.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
I was in flip-flop even, not in good shoes to run. And for real, it was so scary. But I was faster and I made it and I escaped from them.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
No, under the military law, it's illegal. We can't have any protest against the occupation. It's very, very dangerous sometimes. It can be not just in Masafir Yatta. And all over the years, many Palestinians lost their lives protesting against the occupation on those kinds of protests. And our...