Participants: Leila Awadallah, Linda Al Rajabi, Samar Zughool, Anwar Samara
Moderated by: Emina Bužinkić
This panel interbraids practices of architecture, movement, community art, and critical pedagogy to think resistance as something lived, sensed, and enacted through bodies, spaces, and relations. It does so in full awareness of the ongoing brutalization of Palestine, where violent cuts fracture the land and leave it bleeding across time and generations.
Refusing the colonial naming of the so-called “Middle East” as a cartographic convenience of empire, the panel asks what it means to think and feel beyond imposed geographies—toward lands, histories, and solidarities that persist despite fragmentation, occupation, and erasure.
In dialogue with Anwar Samara, Laila Awadallah, Samar Zughool, and Linda Al Rajabi, the panel explores how embodied practices reimagine connection across violently divided lands and lives. From re-stitching land through speculative urban design, to dancing grief and resistance into collective motion, to diasporic art as feminist method, to classrooms as sites of critically grounded worldmaking—these interventions insist on life amid structures of death and politics of debilitation.
Together, the speakers foreground how bodies remember what borders attempt to sever; how land holds histories that outlive empire’s maps; and how resistance emerges through everyday acts of teaching, moving, building, and imagining otherwise. At a time marked by mass violence, dispossession, and ongoing genocide, this panel affirms embodied resistance as a force that reclaims meaning, restores relationality, and sustains politics of life beyond the geographies of empire.
Screening schedule
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