Mike Joseph
Stories of Genocide
‘No bombs, no bodies’, wrote a viewer about my film, GAZA: A Story of Love and War, ‘and yet so powerful and moving’. Lacking the expected screenplay of horror that fills television and online news daily since October 2023, this film may at first seem little more than...
This short sequel to GAZA: A Story of Love and War, records the audience discussion with Ceredigion MP, Ben Lake, after the autumn 2024 screening of the documentary in Cardigan. Ben Lake reveals that no subject concerns his constituents more urgently than Gaza....
Hello world! This is Aya Iyad Salama, a 21 years old, half Palestinian half Algerian girl, based her whole life in the largest open air prison (Gaza). This year was supposed to be my graduation year from university, as I am studying English translation in Al Azhar...
This discussion on genocide in the age of the nation state was first published in Planet, the Welsh Internationalist in March 2015. It is just as relevant today. This year’s centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and seventieth anniversary of liberation of the Nazi death...
British Mandate Palestine policy created today's inequitable Israel-Palestine conflict. Two days before British Palestine became Israel, on 12 May 1948 my uncle’s Palmach brigade conquered and cleared Bureir and neighbouring Najd, Sumsum, Huleiqat and Kaukaba. All...
A Family in War, Holocaust and Palestinian Nakba through a Century of Letters Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth 20 Ebrill 2020 18:30 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 20 April 2020 18:30 Escaping Germany Four generations of one...