agriculture
Tareq Khalaf
In this podcast, Filmmaker, urbanist, educator, and cultural practitioner Tareq Khalaf opens a conversation on the agrarian ways of life and the deep-rooted significance of land in Palestinian identity. He reflects on memory, absences, legacies, collective labor, fig harvests, resistance, and radical pedagogies. The conversation also examines the insidious strategies of slow violence at the heart of the settler-colonial project, revealing occupation and its spatial regime—shaped by fragmentation, land confiscation, settlement expansion, conservation policies, and food politics—as a form of environmental erosion and disaster. We also delve into the emotional and psychological toll of life under occupation, and the vital role of imagination, community, and collective expression in sustaining identity and hope, especially in the face of efforts to normalize deeply abnormal conditions.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with filmmaker and urbanist Tareq Khalaf. He reflects on life between Palestine, the US, Uganda, and South Africa, and what these journeys reveal about colonial legacies and liberation. Tareq speaks about South Africa as a mirror for Palestine, the wisdom of rooted figures like his great-aunt Azziza, and how land, memory, and struggle connect across contexts, raising vital questions of exile, belonging, and the shared pursuit of justice and freedom.