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EPILOGUE: TARNEEM // PALESTINE | Letter to Gaza, Love Tarneem
October 24, 2024
EPILOGUE: TARNEEM // PALESTINE | Letter to Gaza, Love Tarneem
October 24, 2024

“Are we not even allowed nostalgia?” A letter to Gaza, by Tarneem Jaber.

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October 24, 2024
AHMA-NOLOGUE: KP//AHMAD | An Anniversary + A Birthday
October 19, 2024
AHMA-NOLOGUE: KP//AHMAD | An Anniversary + A Birthday
October 19, 2024

One year has passed since the start of what has become the Palestinian genocide. KP and the Jaber siblings meet in Cairo. Art is made. And in its midst, we navigate the challenges of maintaining hope in the face of continued devastation. 

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October 19, 2024
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September 24, 2024
MONOLOGUE#10: TAIMA// DOREEN | Whatever You Build + Empty Cans
September 24, 2024
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September 24, 2024
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September 16, 2024
MONOLOGUE #19: FATEEMA // ALIYA | If The Sea Could Talk
September 16, 2024

Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and a binaural microphone  with her to perform an action at a Toronto branch of the largest worldwide financier of weapons used by Israel. Aliya believes, as Che Guevara did, that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of GREAT LOVE. 

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September 16, 2024
IN THIS MONOLOGUE: THE JABER TRIFECTA | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams
September 1, 2024
IN THIS MONOLOGUE: THE JABER TRIFECTA | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams
September 1, 2024

Three siblings cross the Rafah border from the North of Gaza and end up performing the Gaza Monologues over the phone to a Canadian woman for a podcast they’ve never heard of. They want the world to know that this war is worse than any war they lived before. 

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September 1, 2024
MONOLOGUE#22: MAHMUD // ALAA | A Cup of Tea +  The Horse of Jenin
August 25, 2024
MONOLOGUE#22: MAHMUD // ALAA | A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin
August 25, 2024

Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. We hear a radiomagic excerpt of his one-man show "The Horse of Jenin". He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine and performs Gaza Monologue #22 Mahmud Abu Shaa’ban. 

Alaa is a graduate of the Nobel prize nominated Freedom Theatre acting and the co-founder of the

Palestine Comedy Club.

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August 25, 2024
MONOLOGUE#1: AHMAD//ALI | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks
August 16, 2024
MONOLOGUE#1: AHMAD//ALI | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks
August 16, 2024

Ali Dajani grew up in Jordan and studied in Canada, where he metThe Heart’s host and creator Kaitlin Prest. They meet up in his Amsterdam home to read Gaza Monologue #1: the story of Ahmad El Ruzzi. Ali's paternal grandfather left Jerusalem in 1948. "What happened in 1948?" KP asks. They both laugh. She apologises for her ignorance. He begins to explain.

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August 16, 2024
PROLOGUE: KP//ASHTAR | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had
August 8, 2024
PROLOGUE: KP//ASHTAR | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had
August 8, 2024

KP gives a long update riddled with system of a down and failed activism, landing on: what will be the next series of The Heart.

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August 8, 2024