A writer, editor, filmmaker, organiser, and longtime advocate for justice in Palestine, Frank Barat has spent years holding space for difficult and necessary conversations. He has worked with iconic voices like Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, and Ilan Pappé, curating powerful collections like Gaza in Crisis and Freedom is a Constant Struggle.
He was a coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. And his work with the Ciné-Palestine film festival in Paris is an extension of his activism through storytelling and visual culture.
In this episode of Falastin, we talk not only about Palestine as a cause, but also as a cultural and political lens — a way of seeing and understanding global struggles for liberation, how storytelling and film can shift the global conversation and what solidarity means and looks like in this moment of genocide.Music: Al-Quds Arabiya | Edward Said National Conservatory of Music