What It Costs to Keep Telling the Truth

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Journalists Mariam Barghouti and Laila Al-Arian discuss the challenges of reporting on Palestine. Based on their experience in the West Bank and the United States, they explore the role of testimony in the age of images, the unequal distribution of credibility and the biases concealed by the myth of objective journalism.

Mariam Barghouti practices investigative journalism from the West Bank and struggles with words, with how to name those who exercise violence and those who suffer it, with showing the complexity of it all. Laila Al-Arian specializes in documentary journalism and is based in the United States. Her raw material is images, at once devastating and valuable for documenting the truth. Both, when reporting on what is happening in Palestine, find themselves stripped of their role as experts. As Palestinians, their journalistic objectivity and credibility are denied. For them, the exercise of truth is a constant struggle to be heard as journalists and experts.

In this session, Barghouti and Al-Arian reflect on their experience of reporting from Palestine and the United States, and discussing the role of testimony in the age of images, the unequal distribution of credibility and the biases concealed by the myth of objective journalism.

Event will be held in English and Catalan with simultaneous interpretation from English to Catalan.

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