Love & Intimacy: Marah and Hafsa

MARAH + HAFSA:
In this episode, we meet Marah, 21, and Hafsa, 93. In this video, Marah interviews her grandmother Hafsa, who she grew up living with in the United States. They discuss Hafsa’s beliefs around love being present in the connection between land and happiness, love in the routines of caring for and tending to fig and olive trees, the wealth of simplicity, and her favorite memories of Palestine. Together, they share how love is taught and passed down and the ways Marah has learned Palestine, and love as an extension, through her grandmother. This interview took place in El Paso, Texas.
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As part of 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN', CPS x LIFTA presents a LOVE & INTIMACY video series. We release short films that center intergenerational outlooks on love and intimacy in Palestine and the diaspora, with discussions highlighting-but not limited to-disconnects, desires, relationships, trauma, teaching, learning, and beyond. This series includes intimate interviews and conversations held between Palestinians who share a close relationship, including old friends, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, lovers, cousins, and more.
Conversations explore what has been inherited and what is being shed, as well as the ways in which taking care of ourselves and each other is to care for the collective-now and into the future. Dialogue moves beyond topics of love in the human-to-human sense, extending to the deep connections one shares with an object, time, smell, memory, land, and ritual.
This week we share conversations held between Marah and Hafsa, Tamara and Faiza, Serene and Nayrouz, and Sharon and Lilly. We’d like to thank all who participated in this series for your time, energy, and openness. You can watch the videos and follow the series on palestineinbetween.com, a blog and accompanying website to this program where we will be sharing original content and reposting content by Palestinians all over the world. Video edited by Muna Daher. Translations from Arabic to English by Lena Mansour. Intro graphic by Ashay Bhave.
You can follow the series at www.palestineinbetween.com