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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Tariq Ziyad Al-Bakri (born in Jerusalem, January 1986 AD) is a researcher and visual documenter of the history of Palestine. He received his secondary education at the Bishop’s School in Jerusalem, and graduated from Al-Ahliyya Amman University in Jordan with a BA in Engineering. Received the Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity for the year 2018.
about his life
He is the general manager of the Yaad Foundation for Culture and Arts, which he established in 2011 and opened in 2017. Tarek is also the chairman of the Palestinian Art Hosh in Jerusalem, an institution concerned with Palestinian visual arts.
Al-Bakri began the task of documenting the displaced villages from north to south in 2010, and upon his return to Palestine, and after experiencing relations and friendships with Palestinian refugees in exile, he launched a personal initiative in visual documentation with a new, non-classical perspective, in which he focuses on documenting the displaced Palestinian villages in 1948 ; Its homes, flags, stories and Palestinian landmarks, which were and still are Palestinian, despite its occupation since 1948. Each story and story is documented, accompanied by old photos before the Nakba, and new ones taken after the occupation, confirming the right of those families to their homes that were stolen from them. Al-Bakri documented pictures and stories of many displaced villages throughout Palestine.
Awards
Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity for the year 2018.
Received the Othman Abu Gharbia Award for Creators
Tariq al-Bakri, nicknamed “the guardian of memory” for his project that linked the abandoned buildings and areas to their residents or those who remained in exile and diaspora through various technological communication techniques.
The announcement of the winners came in a special ceremony hosted by the Martyr Majed Abu Sharar Hall, the main hall of the 11th Palestine International Book Fair.
The documentation project
He crystallized the idea of documenting the displaced Palestinian villages, after his contact with the Palestinian refugees in the diaspora, where he experienced a painstaking search process for the history of the place, for the names of places, villages and regions, and to reach out to the owners of the land and houses and communicate with them, to send him what they have of old photos, so that he can document those places. in its present form. Some of them were able to accompany him on a trip home after an absence, to begin the search for their homes and/or the homes of their parents and grandparents from which they were expelled in 1948, or what remains of its ruins, or even those that remained as they were and the Israeli occupation did not change anything in them. .
He launched a personal initiative, without external support, in visual documentation in Palestine, in which he focuses on documenting the villages displaced in 1948 and the Palestinian homes and landmarks that devolved to the occupiers, accompanied by old photographs before the Nakba. Al-Bakri has so far documented pictures and stories of many displaced villages throughout Palestine, in addition to an oral documentation project that he carried out in the diaspora camps with the generation that accompanied the Nakba.
The “we were and we are still” initiative, which documents the ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages, which is considered a simulation between the past and the present to refute the allegations of the occupation, and document the Palestinian buildings that have been seized. It is also a window on Palestine before the Nakba in various aspects of life, including social, cultural, commercial, urban and artistic. It is an initiative to spread the true Palestinian narrative, and to communicate with Palestinian refugees wherever they are, through social networking sites in the homeland and diaspora, to compare their old photos with modern photos of the current reality of their homes, villages, and cities.
The film “The Guardian of Remembrance”, which follows the stories of return that Tareq documents and the stories of the Palestinians’ relationship with establishing their right to their land and the return of three generations to visit their homes and villages from which they were forced to leave.
The film was directed by Sawsan Kaoud, and produced by Al-Jazeera Documentary. It was shown in several countries and festivals.
The documentary "Missing 48", which shows the search mechanisms through which Tariq al-Bakri was able to find eight shrines for the martyrs of the Jordanian army inside the lands of Palestine, who were martyred in the year 48 in Palestine in the woods of Emwas, after they were considered missing. The story of these soldiers was documented in the documentary "Missing 48". The film was shown in the cities of Amman and Karak, as part of the International Week to Resist Colonialism and Racial Discrimination. It was also screened at the Elijah Short Film Festival in Jerusalem. The film is produced by Mawqif Art Productions, and directed by Abdel Fattah Daoud.
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