This interview is a discussion with the Syrian Director Osama Halal, about making theater in the Middle East and the difficulties accompanying it. Founded 21 years ago, Koon is a theater group working mainly on integrating music, dance, poem, singing and rap into theater, and finding untraditional spaces to perform.

هذا اللقاء هو نقاش مفتوح مع المخرج السوري أسامة حلال حول صناعة المسرح في الشرق الأوسط، وما هي الصعوبات التي تصاحبها. واحد وعشرين سنة منذ تأسيسه لفرقة كون المسرحية. كون هي فرقة مسرحية تعمل بشكل أساسي على دمج الموسيقا والرقص والشعر والغناء والراب بالمسرح، والبحث عن فضاءات غير تقليدية للعرض.

https://www.statushour.com/en/Interview/3585

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VOMENA host Malihe Razazan speaks with Haideh Moghissi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at York University in Toronto, about the ongoing protests in Iran.

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Professor Haideh Moghissi's publications include articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes and following books: Muslim Diaspora, Gender, Culture and Identity (ed.) London: Routledge (2006) Three volume Women and Islam:Critical Concepts in Sociology (ed.) London: Routledge (2005); Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press 2000 (Zed Press, 1999, winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award) and Populism and Feminism in Iran :Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.Martin's Press (1994.). She has served as Coordinator, Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and Chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University and also as a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on BBC World Service, CBC, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research , and Women in Struggle and Equality (Tehran). Presently she is the director of an international comparative research project, “Diaspora, Islam and Gender”, that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) and the co-principle investigator of a Ford Foundation research project, “Muslim diasporas: Heightened Islamic identity, gender, and cultural resistance.”

Women, Life, Freedom: Women lead protests in Iran

Interviewed by Moe Ali Nayel
27 August 2015 | English
Hana Slieman takes Status deep below the American University in Beirut building where a vast archive is housed, keeping Palestinian memory alive. 

Part 3, Inside the Operations Room with the Team Digitizing Archives - Hana Slieman [English]

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Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father's wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.

Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and the economic sanctions of the 1990s destroy the socioeconomic fabric of society. The 2003 invasion and military occupation unleash sectarian violence. Corpses pile up, and Jawad returns to the inevitable washing and shrouding. Trained as an artist to shape materials to represent life aesthetically, he now must contemplate how death shapes daily life and the bodies of Baghdad's inhabitants.

Through the struggles of a single desperate family, Sinan Antoon's novel shows us the heart of Iraq's complex and violent recent history. Descending into the underworld where the borders between life and death are blurred and where there is no refuge from unending nightmares, Antoon limns a world of great sorrows, a world where the winds wail. 

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The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon, Narrated  by Fajer Al-Kaisi

المطحنة – Prod. by El Rass 
اللوحة : "عصفور الحريّة " للفنّان وسام الجزائري

: الكلمات
عضام الرقبة لمّا ما تخلّيك تشوف وراك، اكسرا
إذا ربحك بخسارة أيد اليمين، عادي اخسرا
إذا سند ضهرك رمح إصحا تتكي عليه
ولا تبكي عليه إن مات الكان روحك آسرا
صح الله واحد، ابليس كمان
و ما ركّع سمّوه شيطان
لعبة إعلام هي من زمان
تفّاح مسمّ ليه بجنّة كان ؟
هيداك المرض، مجهول
ما غلبه المال، خافوه
ما لقوا تفسير، عبدوه
والموت
كيف بتهدّد فيه إذا الموت حقّ عالكلّ ؟
كيف بدعي الناس تثور و بكلّ نفس الي في ذلّ ؟
ليش خايف إنطحن من وحش بإيدي بغذّيه ؟
خايف انطعن من خاين و ببيتي بلفّيه

كتبت كتير  كبّيت
كبتت كتير و بكيت
كسرت كتير و لفّيت
كلّه كان عبث
كتبت كتير  كبّيت
كبتت كتير و بكيت
كسرت كتير و لفّيت
كلّه كان عبث

كبتت كتير و بكيت
كسرت كتير و لفيت
كتبت كتير و كبيت 
كلّه كان عبث
كتبت كتير كبيت
كتبت كتير و كبيت
كسرت كتير ولفيت

كلّ ما نام ببيتي ليلة في طفل بشارع بيموت
كلّ ما بوس أمّي أم بتبوس التابوت
كل ما سكّر بابي في بيت عم ينقصف
كلّ ما خنق صدر عاري للقناص هدف
بنبسط بالشتي و في خيام بيجرفا السيل
بتمشى بالشمس و ناس الشمس براسا ويل
كل ما فيق  بتزيد المجازر وحدة
كل ما احلم شوف بنتي، بنت فوق جثة بوها تحدي
عندي حلم ؟ قال إيه
في عيلة حلما رغيف
عندي وجع راس و روس طفال تسن السيف
جواتي تافه، قلي الله راضي
عمر الظلم بعمر الدني واللي تاعب روحك عادي
طافر ساكت عم يتجسس
يبزق بوجهي كل ما ظالم عم يتنفس
طافر، عنده الحق ما في لبس
جلّادك جلدك يا ناصر و عضامك حيطان الحبس.. قلّي.



المطحنة - بو ناصر الطفّار / إنتاج الرّاس

Waldionice Cossermelli, the author's grandmother, remembers lullabies in Arabic 

Lebanese/American filmmaker Jude Chehab describes her experiences of the August 4th explosion in Beirut, recent protests in the city, and how these events lead her and others to organize grassroots rebuilding and transparent relief efforts in the Lebanese capital. 

Donate now via PayPal to help support those impacted by the explosion in Beirut. paypal.me/judechehab

Interviewed by Paola C. Messina
August 9th, 2020 | English

التعافي في بيروت: تجربة جود شهاب في جهود الإغاثة الشعبية بعد انفجار الميناء

تصف المخرجة اللبنانية\الأمريكية جود شهاب تجربتها مع أحداث انفجار 4 آب/أغسطس في بيروت، والاحتجاجات الأخيرة في المدينة، وكيف دفعتها هذه الأحداث وغيرها إلى تنظيم جهود إعادة بناء شعبية وإغاثة شفافة في العاصمة اللبنانية.

Healing in Beirut: Filmmaker Jude Chehab on Grassroots Relief Efforts Following the Port Explosion

Status/الوضع is an audio-visual magazine (Podcast) that features interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews, informed commentary, and lectures held around the world on the Middle East and North Africa. Activists, journalists, scholars, and citizens feature both as guests and hosts on a variety of subjects.  A distinct flavor of this podcast is its attention to cultural production and the various processes of knowledge production and information dissemination for public consumption, via social or traditional media. Status/الوضع has established a large number of regional and global partners who partake in the production of material for our audience, in several languages.

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