Palestine 1947

What do we see when we dream of Palestine pre-1948?
To reject the colonial aesthetic is an act of liberation for the collective awareness.

This question and idea were both central to this workshop facilitated by Maria Khorzom and Oday Maaytah. The numerous sessions delved deeper into communal and personal archival material that was garnered directly from Palestinian sources, as well as that created by occupational propaganda. The group attempted to understand how the cultural, economic, structural, and agricultural colonial processes that paved the way for the 1948 Nakba tainted the archival materials (including photographs, posters, and newspaper texts) that created Palestine's current narratives.

Oday Maaytah is a documentary film maker. He is interested in researching archival images, their connotations, and the history of colonialism in the region. He has made many documentary films, and research based on historical documents.