"Saffuriya and Nahr Al-Bared - Um Fawzi", Stories from the Sea to the River project, 2022

This video documents an interview conducted by Tareq Al-Bakri and Bayan Sukkar with Um Fawzi Mawed from the forcibly depopulated village of Saffuriya. Um Fawzi, who now lives in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, joined Al-Bakri and Sukkar via video call for a tour of her former village. During the call, Um Fawzi shared her memories, especially of Saffuriya’s castle, St. Anne’s Monastery, the pomegranate and olive harvest seasons, and the songs that girls would sing as they swung. At the end of the call, she asked Al-Bakri to send her a handful of soil, two olives, and a pomegranate from her village. The video was produced by Shagaf for Digital Expression in collaboration with the "We Were and Still Are... Here” initiative and the Campji platform in 2022, as part of the "Stories from the Sea to the River" project, funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and supervised by the Taawon (Welfare Association).