Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Inmenas

Join us for " 's Rights, Freedom & Advocacy in & " on Thursday 2 March at 7pm: Talk with 3 feminists who work as civil changemakers: Sonia Terrab خارجة على القانون Moroccan outlaws _ Femmes hors-la-loi, Sarah Benson Women's Aid & Orla O’Connor National Women's Council of Ireland

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Presented by Ambassade de France en Irlande, Alliance Française de Dublin, EROSS DCU, Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Inmenas

New blog post by Paola Rivetti discussing the recent protests in Iran, how these differ from previous mobilisations, and why they mark a point of no return.

Reflections on Iran’s protests: Perils and potentiality Jina Mahsa Amini. Source: wikimedia commons by Paola Rivetti The anti-patriarchal protests in Iran that started after the death of young ...

Member Paola Rivetti write for RTÉ about "I have examined this increasing radicalisation in a time when it was limited to activist communities. But year after year, the regime has dismantled all possible inroads for peaceful and gradual reform by harassing, arresting and murdering activists or forcing them into exile. Regardless of what will happen in the short term, these protests matter in that they reinforce a pattern of growing mistrust towards the institutions, perhaps to a point of no return.
link: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0926/1325483-iran-protests-mahsa-amini-women-activism/?fbclid=IwAR3LuRIUhwa5yPwQ3iSXtV6kWAb2paARN7_o-cIuHr94ZYTnVlpCv35_YSI

Report on our screening of Not Just Your Picture - The Story of the Kilani Family titled "Reclaiming the Politics of the Future" by member Paola Rivetti Special thanks to Anne Pak
"As I was mulling over these feelings, however, I realised that the documentary was telling a different story than one of stagnation and never-ending injustice. While watching the sibling protagonists, Layla and Ramsis Kilani, go through a personal journey of growing awareness and politicisation, I realised that the movie was about a story in movement, about Layla and Ramsis’s growth and understanding of being part of a longer and inter-generational story of resistance. This is a movie about the politics of remembering the past as well as the politics of imagining the future, which Layla, Ramsis and many others are building."

Reclaiming the Politics of the Future by Paola Rivetti On September 8, 2022, the Irish Network for MENA Studies, the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City Unive...

We are delighted to invite you to a screening of the award-winning documentary Not Just Your Picture–The Story of the Kilani Family, by Anne Paq and Dror Dayan on Thursday, 8th September | 6-8pm | DCU St. Patrick’s Campus | Room D211. Anne Paq will be with us to introduce the film, and for a Q&A session afterwards. The event is free but please register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/not-just-your-picture-the-story-of-the-kilani-family-tickets-410466074077
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Not Just Your Picture tells the story of two young German-Palestinian siblings, Ramsis and Layla Kilani, who had their life shattered one early morning during the summer of 2014 when their father, Ibrahim, together with his second wife and their five young children, was killed by an Israeli airstrike during the attacks on Gaza. Thrusted into an accelerated process of politicization and rediscovery of their Palestinian roots, the two struggle to find justice for their family while trying to make sense of a political reality that not only allows for such atrocities to happen, but even attempts to silence any criticism of it.
Born in 1976, Anne Paq has been a member of the Activestills Collective since 2006. She is an award-winning freelance photographer and videographer who has lived and worked in Palestine for over a decade.
Born in 1981 in Jerusalem, Dror Dayan is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool.

Not Just Your Picture - the story of the Kilani family Not Just your Picture - screening and Q&A with Anne Paq

We come back from our summer break with a post by Claudia Saba, who reflects on Israel's attacks on Palestinian media. Israeli tactics to deter Palestinian journalists from doing their work include imprisonment, fines, beatings, house arrests, and live fire. The targeting of Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known media personality, signals an escalation in attacks by Israel on journalists attempting to expose the full detail of its decades-long occupation.

Are Israel’s attacks on Palestinian media moving up the journalist food chain? Israeli tactics to deter Palestinian journalists from doing their work include imprisonment, fines, beatings, house arrests, and live fire. ...