Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses
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For over a hundred years, South Africa was the largest producer of the world’s gold. More gold has been extracted from its reserves than from all the other mines in the world combined. Ever. We are Zama Zama is a portrait of migrants eking a living in the depths of South Africa’s abandoned gold mines.
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“The Native and the Refugee” is a long-term multimedia project by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny profiling the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. While the existence of such spaces is the result of settler-colonialism (albeit at different stages) and are repositories for its ongoing violence, they also open up new possibilities for resistance and for conceptualizing existence outside the boundaries of the nation-state.
