Mirna Bamieh
Mirna Bamieh
In this podcast, Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh thinks aloud through disappearance: of dishes, of access to land and sea, of routes between Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. She lingers on fermentation and preservation as slow, stubborn forms of survival in times of genocide and exile, on pantries that prepare for emergency, on doors and foodways as thresholds between worlds. She speaks of immigrants’ suitcases lined with Zaatar, olive oil, and citrus, of how cooking can make a scattered life legible, and of how stories travel through potatoes passed from hand to hand in the street. Here, recipes become maps and memories, jars become time capsules, and the everyday choreography of hands in the kitchen opens a space where grief, rage, and tenderness ferment together into something that insists on remaining alive, visible, and shared.