A writer, editor, filmmaker, organiser, and longtime advocate for justice in Palestine, Frank Barat @FrankBarat77 has spent years holding space for difficult and necessary conversations. He has worked with iconic voices like Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, and Ilan Pappé, curating powerful collections like Gaza in Crisis and Freedom is a Constant Struggle. He was a coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. And his work with the Ciné-Palestine film festival in Paris is an extension of his activism through storytelling and visual culture.
In this episode of Falastin, we talk not only about Palestine as a cause, but also as a cultural and political lens — a way of seeing and understanding global struggles for liberation, how storytelling and film can shift the global conversation and what solidarity means and looks like in this moment of genocide.
Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor’s Palestine Book Awards.
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Music: Al-Quds Arabiya | Edward Said National Conservatory of Music
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