TWELVE BEDS
REINE MITRI | 2022 | 100’

tuesDAY 21 NOVEMBER | 18:20
bertha dochouse: Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW

Children of martyrs of the Palestinian Revolution return to a place of memory where personal narratives of displacement and martyrdom stir questions related to identity, sacrifice and homeland.

Twelve Beds portrays the challenging existence of the orphaned children who lived and studied in a mixed orphanage in Mount Lebanon in the town of “Souk el Gharb”. Some of them found salvation in the folk troupe founded by artist Abdallah Haddad in the early seventies. They became icons of the Revolution and toured the world in an era of global solidarity with the Palestinian cause. 

Years later, the hundreds of martyrs’ children, now adults, are dispersed in several countries; the orphanage building still stands in Souk El Gharb, bearing scars of the civil war. 

This programme is courtesy of Al Jazeera Media Network.