A comrade wrote to me about her opinion of Muhammad Bakri's film on Yarmuk, and I agree with her assessment: "I hate it. simply.
There are a million ways to show misery and even hunger without being so direct. I hate the scene of the kids rushing to open the bags. I wouldnt even imagine that this would happen in real life, when their sister just got sold. They would lose appetite even if they hadn't eaten for days. my organisation deals with hunger and I always avoid showing people rushing to eat. I discovered lately that one sign of acute malnutrition is loss of appetite and not the other way around. I understand why Palestinian and Syrian people would be upset.
And the issue of selling daughters that is happening for example in zaatari (but not as common as perceived to be) is only partially related to the suffering of people and the difficult conditions. You know that this has been happening before the war and is still happening around the arab world; only now saudi men coming forward are becoming more insolent and exploitative. And it happens through the traditional marriage arrangements but the groom is saudi and the payment is in the form of مقدم ومؤخر which is akin to selling but not like this. "
There are a million ways to show misery and even hunger without being so direct. I hate the scene of the kids rushing to open the bags. I wouldnt even imagine that this would happen in real life, when their sister just got sold. They would lose appetite even if they hadn't eaten for days. my organisation deals with hunger and I always avoid showing people rushing to eat. I discovered lately that one sign of acute malnutrition is loss of appetite and not the other way around. I understand why Palestinian and Syrian people would be upset.
And the issue of selling daughters that is happening for example in zaatari (but not as common as perceived to be) is only partially related to the suffering of people and the difficult conditions. You know that this has been happening before the war and is still happening around the arab world; only now saudi men coming forward are becoming more insolent and exploitative. And it happens through the traditional marriage arrangements but the groom is saudi and the payment is in the form of مقدم ومؤخر which is akin to selling but not like this. "
