E09 - IF I MUST DIE (Refaat Alareer, read by Rafeef Ziadah)

Podcast: MEMORY FOR DENIAL · firefly frequencies

Opublikowano: 2025-01-17

Rafeef Ziadah recites the poem "If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer who was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli military December 6, 2023, along with his brother, his brother's son, his sister and her three children. This poem written to his daughter in 2011 was published five weeks before his murder. Collective project SOME STRINGS Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed SOME STRINGS, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures that is rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was assassinated. In his poem, "If I Must Die", published five weeks before his murder, Refaat A...