{"id":2836,"date":"2024-09-13T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:10:40","slug":"an-arab-womans-place-is-in-the-struggle-curated-by-giovanni-vimercati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"An Arab Woman\u2019s Place is in the Struggle Curated by Giovanni Vimercati"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Arab Woman\u2019s Place is in the Struggle Curated <\/a>by Giovanni Vimercati<\/p>\n

Paraphrasing Assata Shakur\u2019s dictum \u201ca woman\u2019s place is in the struggle,\u201d this programme of films by and about women in the Middle East is meant to foreground their place on the frontlines of political struggles, past and present. Often faced with a dual form of oppression, within and without their societies, women in the Middle East have had to confront the orientalist paternalism that frames them as helpless victims to be rescued. The films in this programme are an antidote to this enduring stereotype, showcasing the many ways in which struggles have been articulated by Arab women against colonial occupation, patriarchal and economic exploitation. Unimpressed by the publicized promises of The West and its brand of duplicitous \u201cfreedom,\u201d the emancipatory projects and urges these films document and stage are not meant to legitimize one system over another, but to undermine the very structure of oppression altogether. Though concerned with specific forms of coercion, historically and geographically situated, these films evoke a will do generalized liberation that ultimately transcend their contingencies.<\/p>\n

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Giovanni Vimercati is a film critic and scholar.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2022 An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes by Annemarie Jacir (2006, 70min)<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2022 Tell Your Tale, Little Bird <\/i>by Arab Loutfi (2007, 90 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Palestinian Women <\/i>by Jocelyne Saab (1974, 10 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nation Estate <\/i>by Larissa Sansour \u00a0<\/i>(2012, 10 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 FATMA 75 by Selma Baccar ( 1975, 60 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Labor Theory of Artistic Value <\/i>by Mary Jirmanus Saba (2024, 20 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 So Much I Want to Say <\/i>by Mona Hatoum (1983, 8 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Going for a Ride <\/i>by Nahed Awwad (2003, 15 min)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Great Sadness of Zohara <\/i>by Nina Menkes (1983, 40 min)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Arab Woman\u2019s Place is in the Struggle Curated by Giovanni Vimercati Paraphrasing Assata Shakur\u2019s dictum \u201ca woman\u2019s place is in the struggle,\u201d this programme of films by and about women in the Middle East is meant to foreground their place on the frontlines of political struggles, past and present. Often faced with a dual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}