/en/videos/Recent content in Videos on Al-QawsHugoenTue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/queeranti-colonial-struggle-from-the-us-to-palestine/Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/queeranti-colonial-struggle-from-the-us-to-palestine/<p dir="ltr"> Evening of solidarity, art, politics, and community, featuring alQaws director Haneen Maikey and Audre Lorde project director, Cara Page.</p> <p dir="ltr"> A talk by Haneen Maikey from alQaws, the Queer Palestinian Activist Collective followed by US based activists Cara Page and Che Gossett to learn more about Queer Freedom Organizing Outside of Racist and Colonial Logics.</p> <p dir="ltr"> Panel featuring:<br /> Haneen Maikey (al Qaws, Palestine)<br /> Cara Page (Audre Lorde Project, NYC)<br /> Che Gossett (Barnard Center for Research on Women, NYC)<br /> Moderated by Malcolm Shanks</p>/en/videos/the-journey-of-discovering-eden/Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/the-journey-of-discovering-eden/<p dir="ltr"> The Journey of Discovering Eden: A new lecture by Ismail Nashif as part of alQaws&#39; Haifa based initiative &quot;Hawamesh&quot; (Margins) &ndash; a monthly intellectual space about issues related to sexual and gender diversity in Palestine. The lecture aims to explore the current concept of the Palestinian City and its different spaces - and the place/status of different groups in it - beyond the notion of the &quot;modern city&quot;, which is part of the colonial legacy. The liberation from colonialism starts with the liberation from the &quot;modern city&quot; as the Palestinian utopia. <strong>(The lecture is in Arabic)</strong></p>/en/videos/liberation-in-palestine-a-queer-issue-haneen-maikey/Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/liberation-in-palestine-a-queer-issue-haneen-maikey/<p dir="ltr"> Haneen Maikey&#39;s talk for LGBT History Month and Israeli Apartheid Week.</p>/en/videos/rabih-alameddine-and-haneen-maikey-keynote-from-the-homonationalism-and-pinkwashing-conference/Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/rabih-alameddine-and-haneen-maikey-keynote-from-the-homonationalism-and-pinkwashing-conference/<p dir="ltr"> Rabih Alameddine&#39;s and Haneen Maikey&#39;s keynotes from CLAGS&#39; conference Homonationalism and Pinkwashing at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, April 10-11, 2013.</p> <p dir="ltr"> For more information about the conference, see the conference website: http://www.homonationalism.org. For more information about CLAGS, see our website:<a href="http://http://www.clags.org." target="_blank"><span style="color:#66ccff;"> http://www.clags.org.</span></a></p> <p dir="ltr"> Rabih Alameddine is a painter and novelist and author of Kool Aids: the Art of War (1998) a novel about an HIV positive gay man written against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War. Other fiction include The Perv (1999), I, The Divine (2001), The Hakawati (2008). A Guggenheim Fellow, his books are widely read in English, French and Arabic, especially in his naive Lebanon. Amy Tan called him &quot;a writer of conscience, of self-consciousness, of subconsciouness, of the great big global unconscious. Within his stories are provocative ideas, housed in fractured narratives, splendid images, daring language&mdash;and simply great storytelling. What some might call disjointed narratives, I think of as the way our perceptions of time and space actually unfurl themselves: not linearly, but in a revelatory sense.&quot; Read more about Rabih Alameddine on his website: <a href="http://rabihalameddine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#66ccff;">http://rabihalameddine.com/</span></a></p>/en/videos/al-qaseda-ashirra-the-evil-poem/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/al-qaseda-ashirra-the-evil-poem/<p style="text-align: left;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Nizar Kabani<br /> Composed by: Jame3 Taksir<br /> Perform by: Hassan Nakhlah</p> <p dir="ltr"> <strong>The evil poem</strong><br /> Rain..Rain..<br /> Her girlfriend with her, and October&rsquo;s lamentation<br /> And the door&rsquo;s joints moaning<br /> And in it the key has gone wild<br /> There&rsquo;s something between the two of them<br /> Only me and the lamp know about<br /> It&rsquo;s a love story<br /> That shouldn&rsquo;t be told<br /> In love<br /> Clarification dies</p>/en/videos/ana-7urra-b7ali-i-am-free/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/ana-7urra-b7ali-i-am-free/<p style="direction: ltr;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Rimon Haddad and Mai Abadi<br /> Composed by: Rimon Haddad<br /> Perform by: Maisa Daw</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> <strong>I am free</strong><br /> In this song the phrase &ldquo;You are yourself and I am myself, I am like you&rdquo;, it has two meanings, first would be the actual clear one, which is that we are alike, and the second is that &ldquo;you are yourself and I am gay, and we are alike&rdquo;, this is because the equivalent word to alike in Arabic also means homosexual.</p>/en/videos/b7ebbik-i-love-you/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/b7ebbik-i-love-you/<p dir="ltr"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Mohamad Halim<br /> Composed by: Jame3 Taksir<br /> Perform by: Rola Azzar</p> <p dir="ltr"> <strong>I love you</strong><br /> I love you, she said, and my love for you cannot be measured<br /> The waves were shy<br /> And on the wall fell a star and lit up Akka&#39;s lighthouse<br /> I love you, may god bless&hellip;<br /> That smile<br /> Which liberates prisoners and excites rebels</p>/en/videos/ji2eto-ela-ahli-i-came-to-my-family/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/ji2eto-ela-ahli-i-came-to-my-family/<p style="direction: ltr;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Jowan Safadi<br /> Composed by: Jowan Safadi<br /> Perform by: Jowan Safadi and Haya Zaatry</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> --------------------</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> <strong>I came to my family</strong><br /> I came to my family<br /> But they didn&rsquo;t accept me<br /> I knocked on the door<br /> But no one opened &hellip;<br /> Goodbye bride of the sea, I&#39;m going back to the lion well (Beer Sheva)<br /> I took off my mask,<br /> they didn&rsquo;t recognize me<br /> I tried my best,<br /> they didn&rsquo;t believe me<br /> I came to my family<br /> But they didn&rsquo;t accept me<br /> I knocked on the door but no one opened<br /> Goodbye bride of the sea, I&#39;m going back to the lion well (Beer Sheva)<br /> Goodbye bride of the sea Goodbye bride of the sea,<br /> Goodbye bride of the sea, I&#39;m going back to the lion well (Beer Sheva)</p>/en/videos/manakir-nail-polish/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/manakir-nail-polish/<p style="direction: ltr;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Haya Zaatry<br /> Composed by: Haya Zaatry<br /> Perform by: Haya Zaatry</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> <strong>Manakir &ndash; Nail Polish</strong><br /> We wake up early in the morning<br /> We put on blush and nail polish<br /> Searching for a meaning<br /> Rules that need to be broken<br /> And we say that God is mighty (Allah kbeer)<br /> We complain, but no one listens<br /> I feel like I am&hellip;<br /> Moving on my own<br /> In a traffic jam, that&rsquo;s suffocating my imagination<br /> Fake masks walking in the streets&nbsp;<br /> Arrows pointing the direction, but my way<br /> Is in the other side&nbsp;<br /> Oh girl, your words are dangerous<br /> Keep your secret hidden (in a well)<br /> Don&rsquo;t let anyone hear us<br /> You don&rsquo;t know what could happen<br /> It is no longer clear<br /> Whose with us and whose against us&nbsp;<br /> I feel like I am&hellip;&nbsp;<br /> Moving on my own<br /> In a traffic jam, that&rsquo;s suffocating my imagination<br /> Fake masks walking in the streets&nbsp;<br /> Arrows pointing the direction, but my way<br /> Is in the other side&nbsp;</p>/en/videos/qina3-jdeed-new-mask/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/qina3-jdeed-new-mask/<p style="direction: ltr;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Jowan Safadi<br /> Composed by: Jowan Safadi<br /> Perform by: Jowan Safadi</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> <strong>New Mask</strong><br /> I think I&#39;m landing<br /> and no one<br /> is standing there for me<br /> I don&#39;t really recognize<br /> any of the faces I see<br /> From this corner<br /> you all look<br /> a little bit too strange<br /> I can&#39;t change<br /> the way you feel<br /> and I will never change<br /> I gotta find a new mask<br /> to conceal my disease<br /> I think that I am perfect now<br /> or this is the best I can<br /> Despite all my deep shit<br /> I&#39;m a surviving man<br /> In the closet I&#39;m trying on<br /> another kind of skirt<br /> Something longer<br /> Something darker<br /> To cover up my dirt<br /> I gotta find a new mask<br /> to conceal my disease<br /> <br /> ----------------</p>/en/videos/thalath-qasa2id-three-poems/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/thalath-qasa2id-three-poems/<p style="direction: ltr;"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Shahd Issawi&nbsp;<br /> Composed by: Abu Rabus<br /> Perform by: Riyad Sliman</p> <p style="direction: ltr;"> <strong>Three Poems</strong><br /> Once upon a time, before the age of man, before love and faith<br /> Creatures more grand than demons, with two faces and two genitals, and a body round like a whale<br /> They had no backs, like two lovers with animosity in their dance<br /> With four legs and four arms, fast as arrows<br /> Three were their sexes, male, female and a mixture of the two is called muse (Ilham)<br /> From perfection the earth created them, with no faults or defects<br /> They were content with themselves, in their strength they were proud to the heights they would shout, cursing their gods<br /> Their hearts filled with pride, and they thought themselves superior to the stars of the sky<br /> Till the gods of the earth, sky, sea and desert gathered to decide their fate<br /> Flood, storms and rain was Ishtar&rsquo;s judgment, Tammuz argued with her, judging fire as the better fate<br /> I have no mercy for them, said the mighty Ashur, I will crush and control them with my hands<br /> Then Ba&rsquo;al shouted, it would be a loss to kill them, we hope for their worship, and here&rsquo;s what he did, he brought rain and wind, lighting and ice, splitting their body into two, turning them into two sexes instead of three, one soul turned into two, one body became of two backs<br /> Next came Isis to heal the wounds, made them unite, as a reminder of the disaster that had befallen them<br /> Kisses and sex were not enough, their tries to unite failed<br /> Till the return to perfection became impossible<br /> So the soul shouted to its fellow soul in yearning, and the body to its fellow body in passion and desperation<br /> And so man loved man, and woman loved woman, and in the ecstasy of the same sex&rsquo;s union, the closest form of perfection was reached</p>/en/videos/zumzum/Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/zumzum/<p dir="ltr"> Album: Ghanni 3an Ta3rif<br /> Lyrics: Muhamad Halim<br /> Composed by:&nbsp;Jame3 Taksir<br /> Perform by:&nbsp;Jame3 Taksir</p> <p dir="ltr"> <br /> <strong>Zumzum</strong><br /> Zumzum is a very cute and sweet child<br /> He loves to dance&hellip; drawing and painting&hellip; and the neighbor Samahir<br /> He says whatever he wants&hellip;and wears whatever he wants&hellip;earrings and bracelets&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> His mother laughs about it&hellip; his father frowned at him&hellip; and the neighbors say &quot;Oh my god&quot;</p> <p dir="ltr"> When he grew up a little and knew more of the world<br /> He played the game of lies, which they call seriousness<br /> Wrong and right&hellip; the appropriate and inappropriate&hellip; the forbidden and the musts<br /> He worked, walking the path<br /> He changed the way he looks&hellip; stopped laughing and stopped being free spirited</p>/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersections-struggles-politics-angela-davis/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersections-struggles-politics-angela-davis/<p dir="ltr"> PANEL ON &ldquo;WHAT IS QUEER BDS? PINKWASHING, INTERSECTIONS, STRUGGLES, POLITICS.&rdquo;</p> <p dir="ltr"> Speaker:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Angela Davis (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ, USA)</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/2012/12/21/wsf-panel-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 255);">pinkwatchingisrael website</span></a></p> <p> &ldquo;What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics&rdquo; is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine. Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, Pinkwatching Israel, and alQaws: for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society invite activists, social movements, and queer groups to join and endorse Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine.</p>/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersections-struggles-politics-ramzy-kumesh/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersections-struggles-politics-ramzy-kumesh/<p dir="ltr"> PANEL ON &ldquo;WHAT IS QUEER BDS? PINKWASHING, INTERSECTIONS, STRUGGLES, POLITICS.&rdquo;</p> <p dir="ltr"> Speaker: RAMZY KUMSIEH (PQBDS/QUEERISTAN, PALESTINE/THE NETHERLANDS)</p> <p dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/2012/12/21/wsf-panel-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#66ccff;">pinkwatchingisrael website</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> &ldquo;What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics&rdquo; is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine. Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, Pinkwatching Israel, and alQaws: for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society invite activists, social movements, and queer groups to join and endorse Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine.</p>/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-natalie-kouri-towe/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-natalie-kouri-towe/<p dir="ltr"> PANEL ON &ldquo;WHAT IS QUEER BDS? PINKWASHING, INTERSECTIONS, STRUGGLES, POLITICS.&rdquo;</p> <p dir="ltr"> Speaker:&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">Natalie Kouri-Towe (QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID, CANADA)</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/2012/12/21/wsf-panel-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 255);">pinkwatchingisrael website</span></a></p> <p dir="ltr"> &ldquo;What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics&rdquo; is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine. Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, Pinkwatching Israel, and alQaws: for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society invite activists, social movements, and queer groups to join and endorse Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine.</p>/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-sarah-colbrone/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-sarah-colbrone/<p dir="ltr"> PANEL ON &ldquo;WHAT IS QUEER BDS? PINKWASHING, INTERSECTIONS, STRUGGLES, POLITICS.&rdquo;</p> <p dir="ltr"> Speaker:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Sarah Colbrone (PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN, UK)</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/2012/12/21/wsf-panel-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 255);">pinkwatchingisrael website</span></a></p> <p> &ldquo;What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics&rdquo; is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine. Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, Pinkwatching Israel, and alQaws: for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society invite activists, social movements, and queer groups to join and endorse Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine.</p>/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-selma-al-aswad/Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/what-is-queer-bds-pinkwashing-intersectionsstruggles-politics-selma-al-aswad/<p dir="ltr"> PANEL ON &ldquo;WHAT IS QUEER BDS? PINKWASHING, INTERSECTIONS, STRUGGLES, POLITICS.&rdquo;</p> <p dir="ltr"> Speaker: Selma al-Aswad<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;(SEATTLE, USA)</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/2012/12/21/wsf-panel-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 255);">pinkwatchingisrael website</span></a></p> <p dir="ltr"> &ldquo;What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics&rdquo; is 1 of 2 public panels organized by Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine. Held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from November 28 to December 1, 2012, the World Social Forum: Free Palestine brought together activists from around the world organizing for justice in Palestine. Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, Pinkwatching Israel, and alQaws: for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society invite activists, social movements, and queer groups to join and endorse Queer Visions at the World Social Forum: Free Palestine.</p>/en/videos/palestinian-queer-politics-and-the-israeli-occupation/Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200/en/videos/palestinian-queer-politics-and-the-israeli-occupation/<p dir="ltr"> Palestinian Queer politics and the Israeli Occupation<br /> By: Haneen Maikey</p>