Sabra Shatila

Creator: Dia Azzawi | 1982-1983

“Sabra Shatila was created by Azzawi in response to the 1982 massacre of civilians in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps during the Lebanese civil war. Described by Azzawi as “a manifesto of dismay and anger,” the exhibition tells the story of the massacre by combining a series of fragmented scenes that create a narrative invoking the brutality of war and human suffering. The composition displays silenced screams and outstretched hands; blood red and human and animal body parts reinforce the horror of the killings.”

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The Price of Kings

Creator: Spirit Level | 2012

New documentary presents shallow view of Arafat Sarah Irving The Electronic Intifada 1 February 2012 “What would you sacrifice for what you believe in?” This is the tagline to a recently-launched 80-minute biopic of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the first in a series of documentaries entitled The Price of Kings, from London-based filmmakers Spirit Level. The series claims to “reveal the sacrifices made by some of the world’s most influential, controversial and powerful leaders,” offering “unrivaled access to the protagonists and close family members at the heart of modern history.” In the case of Yasser Arafat, the filmmakers’ prize interviewee is his widow Suha. Her recollections start with childhood memories of Israeli military curfews imposed on her home city of Nablus, when the army was searching for “Abu Mohammed” — the guerrilla Arafat under one of his noms de guerre. She states that “he got married with me and had a daughter but he was really married to the cause” and gives some accounts of Arafat’s behind-the-scenes reactions to major events in Palestinian history, ranging from the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon to the various negotiations of the 1990s. Finally, she delivers a tearful description of the 4am phone call to her dead husband’s Paris bedside. Suha Arafat’s testimony is backed up by more politically informative interviews with Palestinian figures including Palestinian Authority minister Nabil Shaath, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman-turned-Arafat-advisor Bassam Abu Sharif, and Fatah stalwarts Jibril Rajoub and Husam Zomlot. Israeli voices include President Shimon Peres (the subject of Spirit Level’s second film in the series), former director-general of the foreign ministry Uri Savir and major peace movement figures Uri Avnery (founder of the organization Gush Shalom) and Arik Ascherman (of Rabbis for Human Rights). Guido Demarco, the late president of Malta and a frequent player in Eastern Mediterranean politics, also gets his two cents’ worth.”

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