Shooting back from Palestine: the power of the image
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The lens is now in Palestinian hands, capturing their reality at the heart of occupation and war. Their powerful images are exposing the horrors of conflict and leading people to turn to new media sources for information and redefine narratives. We hear how a new film distribution company run by Palestinians is empowering a new generation.
In this episode:
- Badie Ali (@watermelon_pics), Co-founder, Watermelon Pictures
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Marcos Bartolomé, and Sonia Bhagat with Phillip Lanos, Hisham Abu Salah, Shraddha Joshi, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Cole van Miltenburg, and our host Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K. Li, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Hisham Abu Salah, Khaled Soltan, Marcos Bartolomé, Phillip Lanos, Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, Shraddha Joshi, Cole van Miltenburg, and Tamara Khandaker.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, shooting back from Palestine. |
| 0:14.0 | We see the power that these images and these pictures and this moving film have to change a narrative. |
| 0:23.4 | In a sea of visual documentation showing their suffering, |
| 0:27.6 | how are Palestinians using imagery to resist? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:48.6 | Images of the Palestinian experience have grabbed the world's attention in a new way over the past year. |
| 0:57.1 | It's why Palestinians have worked under constant challenges to bring audiences' stories of all kinds, |
| 0:59.8 | including Al Jazeera journalists. |
| 1:07.2 | And perhaps no other player in those stories better understands their impact on the world than Israel. |
| 1:13.9 | Pretty remarkable scenes as a group of Israeli forces came in, guns drawn with these huge weapons in hand ordering the closure of Al Jazeera's office in Ramallah in the occupied |
| 1:21.1 | West Bank. After midnight on Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers raided the Romala Bureau of Al Jazeera and the occupied West Bank, ordering a 45-day closure and seizing equipment. |
| 1:35.1 | It follows an order in May that shut down the Al Jazeera Bureau in Jerusalem. |
| 1:40.9 | This breaking story makes the conversation we're bringing you today a timely one. Here's the show. |
| 1:52.0 | Destruction of neighborhoods, hospitals overwhelmed, parents sobbing while holding their lifeless children. |
| 2:04.5 | Over the last 11 months, on our phones and TV screens, |
| 2:09.5 | we've been confronted with an endless barrage of images of Palestinian suffering. |
| 2:13.3 | But while carnage and grief have dominated headlines, |
| 2:17.8 | on occasion, another type of image has managed to break through. |
| 2:26.2 | One of joy, even in the darkest of times. |
| 2:29.3 | 7.1 of Shane, our daily routine in Warren's on. |
| 2:33.5 | Today we're going to teach you how to make Jasmuz or Shaksuka, Habibi, |
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