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Shivan Sarna
Registrace 15. 06. 2011
Journalist telling stories at the intersection of travel, culture, and social justice.
How Palestinian Storyteller Jenan Matari is Fighting Israeli Propaganda
Welcome to “Choose Your Weapon,” a podcast series where I interview change makers - artists, musicians, journalists, activists, historians - using their tools to stand up for the oppressed.
Jenan Matari, a Palestinian-American storyteller and media professional, creates educational content about Palestine for her 330K followers on social media (IG @jenanmatari). Jenan is at the forefront of making sure Palestine stays in public consciousness. Through historical education, media literacy, and indigenous storytelling, she strives to counter desensitization and make her audience feel something. She uses evocative imagery and poetry to move her audience into action.
We get into how Western media is manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and how it's used similar tactics to oppress and colonize people of color for centuries. We also explore how to identify and cut through colonial journalism and Jenan shares storytelling techniques to counter these narratives.
These conversations aim to inspire you to unlock your strength and make a difference in our fight for collective liberation. So, what weapon are you wielding?
00:00 Words as a weapon
7:15 Historical propaganda and oppression
9:50 The "perfect victim" myth
10:20 "Pinkwashing" Palestine
11:30 Exclusion of men's suffering
13:55 The grammar of deceit
17:24 Colonizer's journalism: "Conflict" and "terrorists"
20:55 Colonizer's journalism: "self-defense"
23:10 The Israel Project's Global Language Dictionary
27:30 Language as a distraction
30:09 Jenan's storytelling approach
35:08 Turning pain into art
36:46 How to center Palestinian stories authentically
37:45 Indigenous storytelling
39:18 Who has the permission to narrate?
42:11 Steps to media literacy
Follow on social media:
Instagram: / shivansarna
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@shivan.sarna?...
Jenan Matari, a Palestinian-American storyteller and media professional, creates educational content about Palestine for her 330K followers on social media (IG @jenanmatari). Jenan is at the forefront of making sure Palestine stays in public consciousness. Through historical education, media literacy, and indigenous storytelling, she strives to counter desensitization and make her audience feel something. She uses evocative imagery and poetry to move her audience into action.
We get into how Western media is manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and how it's used similar tactics to oppress and colonize people of color for centuries. We also explore how to identify and cut through colonial journalism and Jenan shares storytelling techniques to counter these narratives.
These conversations aim to inspire you to unlock your strength and make a difference in our fight for collective liberation. So, what weapon are you wielding?
00:00 Words as a weapon
7:15 Historical propaganda and oppression
9:50 The "perfect victim" myth
10:20 "Pinkwashing" Palestine
11:30 Exclusion of men's suffering
13:55 The grammar of deceit
17:24 Colonizer's journalism: "Conflict" and "terrorists"
20:55 Colonizer's journalism: "self-defense"
23:10 The Israel Project's Global Language Dictionary
27:30 Language as a distraction
30:09 Jenan's storytelling approach
35:08 Turning pain into art
36:46 How to center Palestinian stories authentically
37:45 Indigenous storytelling
39:18 Who has the permission to narrate?
42:11 Steps to media literacy
Follow on social media:
Instagram: / shivansarna
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@shivan.sarna?...
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Molokhia: Palestinian Cooking
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From Land to Table: #Molokhia, a leafy 🍃 green vegetable (jute mallow in English), holds profound cultural significance in Middle Eastern cuisine, symbolizing tradition and family ties. For 94-year-old Halima Abdelhadi, a survivor of the Nakba, molokhia connects her to her Palestinian heritage-from her upbringing in Hebron to preparing it in a refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. This #Eid, she teach...
Why Palestinian Director Darin J. Sallam Chose Cinema As Her Weapon
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Welcome to “Choose Your Weapon,” a podcast series recorded in Amman. In this podcast, I interview change makers - artists, musicians, journalists, activists, historians - using their tools to stand up for the oppressed. Palestinian-Jordanian director and writer Darin J. Sallam joins me on this episode. Her groundbreaking film, Farha on Netflix, launched the Nakba genre. Darin shares why she cho...
“This Thobe Is Resistance, It Is the Rifle"
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“The thobe is the bullet that will scatter into the faces of our enemies.” Meet Samira, the Palestinian woman from Dawaymeh wielding her traditional dress as a weapon of strength and defiance.
Palestinian Emotions: Nakba Survivor Shares Why He’s “Always Angry”
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“The world looks at Palestinian anger with one eye.” Welcome to a new series, “Emotions,” where Palestinians share the feelings they’ve come to intimately understand through the injustices they’ve experienced. Our shared emotions bring us closer as humans, and this series aims to counter dehumanization while encouraging curiosity. Fakhri Yousef Tellawi, violently expelled from Tiberias, Palesti...
Meet Maasai Mara's Leading Medicine Man
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Birika, a medicine man, turns leaves into powerful remedies. Ready to learn the ways of Maasai magic?
What Is Sufism in Tunisia? And Why Is It So Misunderstood? I Ask a Sufi
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Meet the Isawiyya, a religious Islamic mystical brotherhood. They go by various names like Aissawa, Issawa, Aissaoua, or Issaoua, and are known for their captivating spiritual performances. Speaking of spiritual practices, have you ever wondered why Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, is often misunderstood? Let's find out by talking to a Sufi in the enchanting village of Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, ...
The Last Stop: Why Kypseli, Athens Is the Best Destination in Greece
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The Last Stop: Why Kypseli, Athens Is the Best Destination in Greece
The Last Stop: Inside a Village in Secret West Bali
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The Last Stop: Inside a Village in Secret West Bali
The Last Stop: Why You Must Visit Serbia's "City in the City"
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The Last Stop: Why You Must Visit Serbia's "City in the City"
You Need To Hear This Blind Bookseller's Story of Courage
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You Need To Hear This Blind Bookseller's Story of Courage
The Last Stop: Here’s Why This Is the Top Place To Taste Armenian Culture
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The Last Stop: Here’s Why This Is the Top Place To Taste Armenian Culture
The Last Stop: Have You Seen This Charming Polish Village?
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The Last Stop: Have You Seen This Charming Polish Village?
Do You Know the Fascinating History of Turkish Tea?
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Do You Know the Fascinating History of Turkish Tea?
The Last Stop: Kuzguncuk, Istanbul's "Little Paris"
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The Last Stop: Kuzguncuk, Istanbul's "Little Paris"
And thank you.✊☮️❤️🇵🇸
Im a Black American and I have eaten this before, absolutely delicious !!
HOW COMMES NO ARAB NATIONS WANT TO TAKE YOU IN ???? CAUSE THEY NO YOU ARE TRUBLE MAKERS WHERE EVER YOU GO . SO STOP LAYING / TAKIJAH 🇵🇱✝️🔯🇮🇱🕎☦️🇵🇱
Subhanallaah, Surely in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find comfort. Those who believe and do good, for them will be bliss and an honourable destination(13:28)
this postcast was so heartwarming and had so much positive content about Gaza/Palestine, THANK YOU! because even tho I am not Palestinian, I am a mother and a school teacher, I have cried almost daily watching videos out of journalist in Gaza to help with the algorithm and to amplify voices like Hind Khoudary and Bisan, it feels like a dystopia. I cannot go to Gaza, what can I do? I can help tell the truth by as she said believing what my eyes are seeing even if my brain is telling me it feels unreal, how can this be happening in this day and age? Why can the ICJ stop this NOW? and the UN? the Arab League? hello? someone? yeah yeah while you are eloquently trying to prove what should be common sense, real humans are indiscriminately dying, why no one stops it? I am a school teacher from a Small nation island in the Caribbean, I would stop it if I knew how. Seeing Palestine hearts even more broken with every American veto. I think as a Palestinian you are doing a great job with your art for you diaspora. Artist help the collective memory remember beauty so for when it ends your people can remember, see, hear and touch the beauty of who they where before they where robbed of freedom, life and dignity, your hand are carrying tradition which is the heart of a people and what connect then to the land. I just wanted to say thank you.
Kypseli has no Greeks at all nowdays. Its not the best place to visit in Greece. Its the worse! If you want to see Pakistanis then visit islamaband
787 Sula la hu ala Muhammad great interview 😊
🤍🙏🏼
What a powerful conversation that emphasizes the importance of using your voice as your weapon. It has been extremely insightful for me to understand the impact of language and the media we consume. The idea of “pink washing” stood out as it portrays Palestine as Muslim and in turn, homophobic, thus dehumanizing them implying they deserve suffering. These ideas are testament to the hypocrisy that surrounds us. This podcast addresses important topics in a way that has left me more informed and conscious of the way I navigate and talk about the occupation and genocide.
Yes, yes, yes, & yes.❤️ 🌈 🙏
These videos are, usually, made by real estate companiew to sell their undervalued goods at a top price. Kypseli is a really ugly and dangerous/dirty place. 30-40 years back it was fine.
Although your video is really nice and pleasant, though the first thing you did is to interview Africans living in Athens? Really? It should be the exact opposite and then after you have spoken with the Greeks you interview some of the foreigners living in Greece. Imagine if i go for a trip to Nigeria and first thing to do is to seek out an American tourist instead of the locals...! I say this with the outmost respect of course. Cheers!
Thank you for the comment. But the point you’re missing is: they are Greek. Born and raised.
There are hundreds of videos of the kind you’re describing. I’m sharing the culture of communities that make up a city like Athens. You won’t find this on any other channel. And I’m glad you’re here
Αν είσαι αραπης καλή είναι η Κυψέλη
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
One more documentary cutting off what the indigenous people have to say. What would they say if they were asked? About how multiculturalism was imposed against the will of the locals. About the criminality rates that are crazy. About the educational system that is being flooded by people who don't speak Greek and that means that children who already speak greek have to slow down. About the exploitation of the health system. About the sense of belonging and common culture that is being lost. About the fact that despite MC Yinka feels that this is an ideal world, it is not. Do I accuse for all the above Mr Kaluta and MC Yinka? Of course not. As human beings I respect them. I disagree with them politically though. For all the above I accuse the Greek governments that we have had since the mid 90s. Left, centre or right. Is this racism? Nope. I have not mentioned race. This is culturalism. I am talking about elements of culture that are being lost despite (or to be exact against) the will of the majority. That leads directly to the annulment of democracy in practice. That gives way to totalitarianism and populism. To anti-democratic sentiments. I am indigenous of Kypseli. So are my parents. So were my grandparents. The change is not for good. Kypseli is worse than what it was some 30-50 years ago. That does not mean that I have something against Afro-Greeks or whoever else. I grew up with them. But that does mean that i am alienated from the polity that we have since my point of view is systematically and deliberately excluded. What do I mean practically speaking? My home has been broken into twice in the last decade. That was unheard of in the past. I have to pay for private school for my kids since the level at public schools has become very low. I have to pay for private health since queueing in public health sector is inhumane. And above all is the feeling of (not) belonging. To put it simply. No problem with people of other race. Huge issue with the fact that the Greek governments never took into account their percentages and the will of the locals for a given cultural identity. We are not Americans. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are not British, we had no colonies, we have no moral obligation to accept people from ex-colonies. The fact that we are willing to help does not mean that we have an obligation to accept everyone or that it is everyone's right to obtain citizenship.
Thanks
Great job!!
Kypseli? Come on....this area does not have any tourist interest and is one of the poor areas with very high percentage of immigrants (legal or not), not a very safe area to walk around especially at night time. It would be a mistake for any tourist visiting Athens to spend his time there. Why do you spread this false information? People will watch this video and will be misled. Even the Greeks from other areas avoid Kypseli, unless they have a good reason to go there.
This is not kipseli.....this a african-islamist colony! I was living almost 20 years in this neighborhood the locals, kicked us out...the africans lied...stupid propagandists The streets was full of life,full with nightlife and theaters! illigals immigrants made the neighorhood full with artists look like getto
This is not Islam, this is a cult. The prophet Muhammad sallahu alahi wa salam nor His companions NEVER did such practices. This is something people started to do after and carry on passing it onto the following generations. These practices are BIdah and you know it.
Kypseli in specific and all of Athens in general are a SHITHOLE. Ugly graffities everywhere, garbage outside all over the place, urine smell, bunch of shady people, drugs and zombies 3 minutes from the tourist's area, traffic gam with narrow streets with pollution, UGLY and old buildings , earthquakes quite often - YAYYK
Children of LEGAL migrants always had the right to citizenship in Greece. Children of ILLEGAL migrants didn't, until 2015. Small correction there.
She talked about Oppression in Greece ? Nobody presses these guys, we like them! But Greece is opressed by 1 billion Africans and another 1 billion Central Asians, that try to come here by any means. They are all nice people, but there is a problem of housing in Kypseli.
They probably needed to mop the floor after that show 🥵
Death nothing else
Κ υ ψ έ λ η=home.
Visiting Greece to provide African food..makes sense
So, you're going to tell me if you go to Greece you're only going to eat Greek food? And completely ignore the city's multicultural side. If you go to America, will you only eat burgers?
This video is for people who want to go deeper and understand the fabric of a place. Also cool if you want to stay in the city center and eat overpriced touristy food.
@shivan_sarna USA has no special kitchen than Burgers,Hot Dogs and Steaks.u get this international food in all the World.But if you go to Greece or Italy you dont eat asian,MC Donalds and no FUFU with your fingers
@@Realizationist New York for example is one of the most diverse places in the world. I am assuming you haven’t been. Part of traveling is learning and experiencing different facets of a place.
@@Realizationist and what’s wrong with eating with your hands? Don’t tell me you go to Italy and eat pizza with a fork and knife
8:04 Πολύ hardship στη μασαμπούκα λέμεεε
Απο που εισαι? Ισραηλ?
this is not islam did the prophet did this !!!
You don't have to do what the prophet exactly did in order to believe in what he did and asked us to do. What matters is that we all prostrate to the same God. We're all different as human beings, and it's more humane to accept our different habits and perceptions of things that were influenced by prior cultures and traditions of thousands of years.
Greece is not racist so let’s please keep the woke talk in america.
Cosmopolitan is a word with greek origins, and I hope Greece will always have a home for what it means.
Jerome has picked up the gestures of Greek men. ❤ Love this for them. I’m nervous of the neighborhood, now but my yiayia lived in this area for many years up until she passed away.
Nice work good luck 😊
Promo-SM
I was born in Kypseli in the late sixties but grew up in Glyfada. left as a teenager in the 80s and immigrated to the US. Recently I visited back after 38y and will be coming back for another visit soon, Kypseli is on my bucket list of places to visit! Very excited to see the diversity of different cultures in Athens and especially in my town of birth! Thank you for this video! And btw your Greek is very good 👍🏻
As a greek it is monumentally laughable that Kypseli is considered the best destination. What a joke. Probably one of the bottom 10 places in whole Greece. Always admire tourists for their ignorance. Imagine going to thousand of better places around the country.
awesome ! 👍
shivan, i love your spirit and your vibe. you such a open, positiv person. j hope the best for you
Thank you for watching and for your kind words! I wish you the best as well!
02:48 that woman is typical for athenians. they have he warm heart of greeks. she calls you my girl,that is equal to my child, she gives her best to help you, but in the moment she did it, she abandoned you 😂😂😂😂
Sounds like my ex. Must be a Greek thing.
@@shivan_sarna nope,athens. i'm from south greece. in my area we just know two tempers. full love or full hate,there is no place for something in between.where from greece is your ex from?
@@dimitriosv.9964Mani but grew up in Athens.
@@shivan_sarna see??? he get ill mannered in athens. he is from my area,but got wrong taught
@@dimitriosv.9964Yes, exactly. Where are you from?
Your Greek accent is soo cute!
Ι don't have any problem with immigrants living in any part of Greece, as long as they are lawful and they don't try to change the basic culture, tradition and mentality of each city they live at. Of course they can practice their ancestor's culture as well
Nice video , i really enjoyed it .
Ben türküm ve eşim Polonyalı 1 kızım ve 1 oğlum var . Kaziu and aga ❤.. Polonyalı’lar iyi insanlar .
Dzięki, ja też lubię Turków, jak większość Polaków. Pozdrawiam i życzę wszystkiego dobrego.
I rarely talk about other ethnic groups of people. We are all human beings I am sure there is space for some other nationalities in Greece bare in mind Greece or officially Hellas is the cradle of western civilisation a civilisation that begun 4000 years ago, the Greek Language is spoken since 1500 Bc which makes it the oldest alive spoken language in the WORLD! now I would like to remind that population is a little less than 11 million including immigrants. Greece has only experienced this wave since mid 90's and it is not something middle aged people and over can absorb this fact. The new fact that Greece is losing gradually culturally , linguistically, religiously it's homogenous appearance. With great respect to other nationalities living in my country we can coexist and we welcome them to assimilate our culture but if we over do it the dangers of changing our nation completely and seeing it no more as it has been for millennia is REAL and not an over exaggeration. Every nation has it's limit and Greece is at the borderline of simply becoming ALIEN. Do we want that? Outsiders may not care but it's non of their business.
You are very friendly towards immigrants because don't understand that this is a sinister agenda to change western nations' demographics. You live in a country that is still 95% European (and 90% ethnically Greek in your country's case) but that is changing and will have dire consequences for ethnic Greeks. As a person of Greek descent living in the USA, I've come to understand that racial/ethnic diversity is not a strength, but rather a serious, dangerous weakness. What is happening in places like England, Germany and France where the populations are quickly becoming Muslim migrant majorities and no-one can say anything without being punished because of a sense of collective guilt about past colonialization, or here in America where we are turning ourselves into a multicultural mix of different racial and ethnic groups with no majority group and are allowing it because of left wing white Americans' collective guilt about slavery, well this can happen to other countries in Europe like yours as well. It is important for Greeks to not be so welcoming going forward and whenever those with an agenda try to silence or censor you, proclaim clearly in large numbers that you were not slavers or colonizers (instead you were slaves to the Ottomans at that time) and you object to your country being overrun by foreigners. Otherwise, the same fate that is befalling people of European descent here in America will eventually happen to you too.
You come to Greece and end up having African food?Am i missing something here?
Greece isn’t only about Greek food. And this is the driving idea behind The Last Stop - to explore the culture of communities often overlooked. I’m sure every tourist will end up having a souvlaki in Monastiraki - I don’t need to show the obvious :)
@@shivan_sarna You haven't gut a clue love. First there is a massive problem in Greece with illegal and economic immigration. You do not go to Greece to eat carried goat. The point of visiting that country was to see its beauty and taste it's food. You spent a whole episode on showing an African family eating and living in Greece for what? You could of done that in London. Also check that a few weeks ago a group of Pakistanis were caught by the police getting ready for a terror attack. Check it out. The Greek people do not deserve this. Showing Africans living in Greece. You must have the iq of a cucumber or you love hunky punky African style. Looking forward to your next review. What will it be I wonder? Eating sushi with the Taliban. Moron.
Kypseli is a terrible neighbourhood of Athens, much pollution,no space, old buildings. Greeks have moved from there many years now.
I will not say kypseli is ‘the best’ destination in Greece but I believe it’s worth visiting. If you’d like to witness something different from beaches and archeological structures, then visit kypseli.. As a black tourist, I felt connected with the people. Thank you for this video 🙂
Thank you for watching! I think Kypseli offers something unique and it’s definitely worth a visit!
Τι να δούνε μονο βρωμιά και μουντζουρες έχει πέρασα από εκεί και έχασα πάσα ιδέα όχι ότι άλλου είναι καλύτερα αλλά να θέλεις και τουρίστες τι να πω
Thanks for showing something else in ATH.
Thank you for watching!
Greece is becoming Greekstan! It hurts to see an ancient civilization losing its identity through illegal immigration. As a Greek/Canadian, I feel sad to see my beloved Greece turning out to be like another Canada that has no identity.
Αλήθεια ; Ποιος κατέστρεψε οικονομικα και πολιτισμικά τις χώρες τους άραγε ; Σίγουρα όχι αυτοί που εσείς ψηφίζετε και υποστηρίζεται τόσα χρόνια , τράβα πιες κάναν φραπέ ρε
@@giorgio5153 Ναι γιατί ως γνωστόν εμείς οι Έλληνες έχουμε καταστρέψει πολλούς λαούς οικονομικά και πολιτισμικά.
@@alexb1584 η χώρα σ ρε Αλέξανδρε δεν είναι στο ΝΑΤΟ και στην ΕΕ ή κάνω λάθος ;;; Επίσης αν θες να το πάμε ιστορικά πάντα τα παπάρια των δυτικών δυνάμεων γλυφουμε και εξυπηρετούμε τα συμφέροντα τους , αυτά για εμάς τους "νεοέλληνες" μέτα την επανάσταση
@@giorgio5153 Εμείς ούτε αποικίες κάναμε στην Αφρική, ούτε σκλαβοπάζαρα για να νιώσουμε ντροπή και να μου λες ότι πρέπει να υποστούμε στον σβέρκο μας τον καθένα. Τώρα τα άλλα που λες περί ΝΑΤΟ κλπ δεν νομίζω να έχουν και μεγάλη σημασία. Μετά τον β παγκόσμιο οι μεγάλοι χωρίσανε τον κόσμο και εμάς μας τοποθέτησαν εκεί που ανήκουμε.
That must be a wonderful experience! Thanks for sharing 😊