Writers Guild by Raghad

Photography

raghadash — 2023-04-02 23:54:43 UTC

- a suite of photographs

Ways of Descriptions

raghadash — 2023-04-02 23:57:52 UTC

an expansive world builder with her music

General Terminology

raghadash — 2023-04-02 23:59:00 UTC

Grassroots = most basic level of an org or activity

Zine (zeen, informal) = a magazine/webzine

A permutation is an arrangement with an order and the order is relevant.

Music

raghadash — 2023-04-02 23:59:31 UTC

Avant pop = popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.

The Land of Thunder and Lightning - Energy and Colonial Footprint

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:01:45 UTC

_{^{by Daniele Medina Poch}}“If colonization imposed a singular worldview, then listening could be a way to unveil a plurality of voices.”

“The association of noise and power has never really been broken in the human imagination- The Soundscape, Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World book.”

"I think, therefore I am" is a Western individualist concept

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:07:59 UTC

Descartes “I think, therefore I am” ❎

Ubuntu “I am because we are” ✅

“I can only be fully me, if you are fully you”

Descartes’ philosophy is individualistic but Ubuntu emphasizes community and believes that a solitary human is an impossible idea. To be human is to be in a community. Ubuntu says you exist because the people around you enabled you to exist. You are because of thee. Your ancestors enabled you to exist. We are connected with our community in the past, present and future.

Ubuntu = a core tenet of communitarianism within African philosophy.

Normal People

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:17:24 UTC

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it.”

Morte Darthur? Genius Connell.

“Connell feels certain about what he’s doing, but it’s a blank certainty , as if he’s blankly performing a memorized task.”

“For weeks now she has had this feeling, the feeling of moving around inside a protective film, floating like mercury. The outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.”

“This quality of discernment, she has realized, does not make Lukas a good person. He has managed to nurture a fine artistic sensitivity without ever developing any real sense of right or wrong. The fact that this is even possible unsettles Marianne, and makes art seem pointless suddenly.”

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:20:20 UTC

“Hitoshi had an extremely eccentric brother. His way of thinking, his responses to events, were ‘curiouser & curiouser’. He lived exactly as if his awareness of things had been formed in some other dimension, after which he was plopped down on this planet to fend for himself.”

“I’d say the expression on her face was that of a demon turned into a human who suddenly caught herself feeling emotions and was warning herself that she wasn’t permitted to.”

“I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying.

Suddenly, to see the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness… for the first time, these days, I’ve been looking at the world half-blind, I thought.”

“I was always aware that my family consisted of only one other person.

The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and old person are living together- the deathly silence that, panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.”

المرأة العسراء

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:22:46 UTC

^{ترجمة ماري طوق}

^{رواية ألمانية من بيتر هاندكه}

“جميع الرجال أضعفوني. زوجي يقول عني: (ميشيل قوية): وهو يريد في الحقيقة أن أكون قوية في الأمور التي لا تهمه: الأولاد، الأعمال المنزلية، الضرائب. ولكنه يدمرني في عملي كما أتخيل. إنه يقول: (زوجتي امرأة حالمة)، فإذا كان الحلم يعني أن نكون ما نحن فأنا اذا أريد أن حالمة.”

Film: The Time That Remains

raghadash — 2023-04-03 00:31:11 UTC

The beauty of The Time that Remains is in the absurd comedy that Elia infused within the drama. Suleiman crafts a poignant, simple, lyrical, absurd comedy to tell the story of the six decade struggle between Israelis and Arabs in Palestine and Israel. There is so much irony and wit within each scene that I found myself laughing while being sad. In one scene a group of combatants drop their weapons and remove their uniforms and quit the battle that they have just lost. In another scene a Palestinian woman is cheering soldiers as they march by her, suddenly one of the marching soldiers pulls out a gun and shoots her dead as they march past her. Then there is the beautiful scene where Elia's mother sits alone in the kitchen enjoying an ice cream all to herself. Finally, the scene where Suleiman pole vaults the wall that separates the Palestinians from the Israelis. The irony and humor within these scenes and throughout the film is breathtaking and left me stunned. The film has the biting political irony of a Luis Buñuel film, the quiet absurd humor of a Jacques Tati film and the fantasy of a Federico Fellini film. The film is gorgeously shot with an equally beautiful mix of Arab and Israelis music.

In the scene below I love the way Suleiman observes a tank as its cannon muzzle follows a young Arab as he goes across the street to deposit his trash in a garbage can. The camera's perspective starts with Suleiman in the scene then the camera gives us his line of sight, so that we become observers in the scene like him. The young Arab is so accustomed to the insanity of a tank positioned in front of his home that he acts as if its a daily ritual that has been part of his life from the day he was born till the day he dies. There is so much irony within this simple scene that its priceless and shows a director who can make incredible social and political commentary within a scene with no dialogue.