food sovereignty
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.