Musician Samir Jubran

Sunday, 6 June | 18:00–18:07
Language: Arabic
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The Palestinian Museum will stream two short films produced to mark the Nakba. The first is a montage of photographs of life before the 1948 Nakba, selected from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive. The video reimagines the lives of the photographed individuals in an attempt to manifest the richness and diversity of the ordinary, personal daily life that was robbed from the Palestinian people.

The second video tells the story of an old bundle containing sesame seeds harvested by the people of the Palestinian village of Sirin in the Galilee a few years prior to the 1948 Nakba. Nusrah, grandmother of Samir Jubran, co-founder of Trio Jubran, kept the seeds for 50 years before gifting them to him on his wedding day. Samir decided in 2003 to revive this legacy by cultivating some of those seeds, whose ability to sustain the promise of life for over 50 years is his fount of wisdom. Sirin was destroyed, but seeds from one of its fields are now sown beyond the occupation and beyond the Nakba.