Staying Alive (Bidna Na’ish)

 

ABOUT THE FILM

An examination of the motives of Palestinian youths who risk their lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. The director asks: Why don't they fear death or injury? How aware are they of what is happening around them? What political thoughts drive them to go and possibly fight to their deaths?

 
 
DOAN | Filmmakers 2
Ghada Terawi
Ghada Terawi

Ghada Terawi was born in Beirut in 1972 to a couple of Palestinian refugees originally from Al Tireh near Jaffa. She lived in Beirut till the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Moved with her family to many countries, Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, to settle down in Tunisia for few years. Studied in the American University in Cairo where she got her BA degree in Political Science.

 
 

Ghada Terawi -- Documentary, 28’ (Palestine/Switzerland: 2001)

Palestine Studies