No Other Land

Join the Duke Human Rights Center and the Provost's Initiative on the Middle East for a screening of the film "No Other Land," the third film in the 2024-2025 Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series. Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts. An unlikely alliance develops. But the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions. This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice. Join us for light refreshments and a panel discussion after the film. About the Panelists: Dr. Rebecca Stein is a cultural anthropologist, and an award winning teacher, researching linkages between culture and politics in Israel in the context of the Israeli military occupation and legacy of the Palestinian dispossession. She is the author and/or editor of five books in the field of anti-colonial Israel/Palestine studies. Her research and writing has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Council, and the Trent Foundation. Her popular writing on Palestine and Israel has appeared in such places as London Review of Books (Blog), Middle East Report, Open Democracy, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Dr. Stein is currently a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.