Hakim Bishara

A virtual reality experiment of embodied narratives with BeAnotherLab. Performed at the We the Peoples Hub, UN Headquarters, New York City, September 2015. 

An Impromptu Karaoke SoapBox installation at Wisdom of Crowds, Haifa 2015.

The sad but true story of chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat. Can the hero of the Palestine Papers survive another round of peace talks? By Hakim Bishara

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Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (Photo: Lisa Goldman)

From Rubaiyat of Omar el-Khayyam

When Life Refuses to Imitate Fiction: A work presented at Solitude Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 2nd as part of the event series Chronicles of Work III.

A conversation between a filmmaker and a scriptwriter, discovered years later on a tape recorder, evokes the story of an aborted documentary project (»The Others«). The hero of the film and its director narrates the dramatic events behind the scenes with Danielle Adair and Ozz who recreate the taped conversation in an informal rehearsal form. 

An article I published recently in the online magazine +972 still has its relevance. 

"One Palestinian journalist’s meditation on being forced to pay for Haaretz, the only paper he can rely on, but one that also espouses a nationalist ideology he cannot accept. ‘I’m fated to be a reluctant reader — and a reluctant citizen.’"

A Sketch of Manners by Jumana Manna (8min, HD video): Alfred Roch (Hakim Bishara) is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what will turn out to be the last masquerade in Palestine. Inspired by an archival photograph, "A Sketch of Manners" recreates an unconventional bon vivant aspect of Palestinian urban life before 1948.

The cheesy title above came to serve my participation as an expert in the Mobile Academy Berlin event discussing the evolution of the Palestinian tabloid in Israel since 1948. The event, named "Blackmarket" was held in Jaffa in 2009 under the title "Invisible, Unknown and Ghostly Knowledge".