226 Cromwell Road

• LocationLondon
• Type
• Salary
• Artformfilm
• ContactRosa rsvp@mosaicrooms.org

Description

We often think of tourism as a separate realm from politics. This event seeks to disrupt this perception with a screening of Leila Sansour’s documentary Open Bethlehem, which tells the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a novel and insightful way by focusing on the famous city of Bethlehem, where many residents depend on the tourist industry for their livelihoods. The film details the everyday effects of occupation on the city, now struggling for its survival due to the wall that imprisons the population and isolates them from the outside world.

Following the screening, director Leila Sansour will be in conversation with Ryvka Barnard, Researcher in Middle Eastern Studies, documentary filmmaker and scholar Yael Friedman, and Memory Studies expert Nina Fischer. The panel will situate tourism in Israel/Palestine within the contexts of colonialism, dispossession and military occupation. In the West Bank, tourism takes many forms, including: pilgrimage tours, hiking, visits to national parks and archaeological sites organised by Israel; tourism development by the Palestinian Authority; and an alternative tourism industry that invites visitors to see the occupation’s realities for themselves. The panel will discuss tourism as both a tool of colonisation and strategy of resistance.

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226 Cromwell Road