Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxxii, 144 pp.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema
ISBN 978-3-030-37522-5 (ebook); 978-3-030-37521-8 (print)
"This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Lebanese political prisoner Soha Bechara praised her feature film 3000 Nights as “the ‘Lest we forget’ of Palestine." Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today." (Publisher description)
1 A True Story: 3000 Nights (2015), 1
2 The Israelis and My Home-Nablus and Shatila: Under the Rubble (1983); Children of Fire (1990), 19
3 Torture and Love in South Lebanon: Wild Flowers-Women of South Lebanon 1986; Women Beyond Borders 2004, 33
4 The Green Line: War Generation-Beirut (1989), 45
5 The Disappeared: Suspended Dreams (1992); Lanterns of Memory (2009), 53
6 My Palestine, Shatila: Children of Shatila (1998), 65
7 It Is My Country: Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001), 77
8 Museum of Memory: Beirut Diaries (2006), 91
9 "Let the Arabs See": 33 Days (2007), 101
10 Keeping Going: Hanan Ashrawi-A Woman of Her Time (1995), 111
2 The Israelis and My Home-Nablus and Shatila: Under the Rubble (1983); Children of Fire (1990), 19
3 Torture and Love in South Lebanon: Wild Flowers-Women of South Lebanon 1986; Women Beyond Borders 2004, 33
4 The Green Line: War Generation-Beirut (1989), 45
5 The Disappeared: Suspended Dreams (1992); Lanterns of Memory (2009), 53
6 My Palestine, Shatila: Children of Shatila (1998), 65
7 It Is My Country: Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001), 77
8 Museum of Memory: Beirut Diaries (2006), 91
9 "Let the Arabs See": 33 Days (2007), 101
10 Keeping Going: Hanan Ashrawi-A Woman of Her Time (1995), 111
