A Documentary on Edward Said's Case for Coexistence
Deadline's Toronto studio item covers a new documentary, Edward Said: Between Worlds, about the late Palestinian scholar and activist. A great deal of his life, in the film's framing, went into preventing the erasure of Palestinian identity and into making his people's cause legible in the West. The documentary's second thread is a proposal for Palestinian-Israeli coexistence — Deadline calls it bold. A film about someone who insisted on both the survival of a people and on sharing a future with their neighbours is arguing against a zero-sum reading of the conflict.
AI-generated discussion · Different perspectives
Advocating for a people's cause and proposing coexistence don't have to be opposites; they can be the same commitment held at different distances.
Or they can pull against each other. The louder the case for a people's survival, the harder coexistence is to sell to anyone who reads it as a threat.