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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.