In collaboration with Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V
From the different representations of Jamila Bouhired, the Algerian freedom fighter, through the magazine›s Cairo’s Al-Hilal 50s and ‘60s collection, the performance attempts to look at the history of socialist projects in Egypt, anti-colonial wars in Algeria, and the way they have marginalized feminist projects. What does it mean to play a freedom fighter? to become an icon? How does the constitution of the subject serve certain political purposes?
Marwa Arsanios
