Live from Bethlehem What do you really know about Palestine?

Streaming video - 2014

The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency (MNA) emerged out of the ashes of the second Intifada to become the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories and an increasingly prominent and influential journalistic force in the wider Middle East. Live from Bethlehem tells MNA's remarkable story. It chronicles the agency's struggles and successes through the eyes of the station's reporters, producers, and photographers, in the process quietly revealing the humanity of ordinary Palestinians as they go about their daily business. The documentary trains its focus on people more than on abstract issues, yet it never loses sight of the myriad social and political forces and pressures that Ma'an journalists are ...forced to negotiate as they try to gather and report balanced information. What results is an admirably nuanced portrait of how news gets produced, and how Palestinians live, in one of the world's most troubled regions.

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Walter Blazewicz (-), Cob Carlson, Amira Hanania, Matt Sienkiewicz, Joseph C. Sousa
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 36 min.)
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Grade 9+
Higher education.
Production Credits
Videographer, Matt Sienkiewicz; co-producer, Amira Hanania; editors, Walter Blazewicz, Cob Carlson, Joseph C. Sousa.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).