November, 2025
New York City ! Vote NO on proposals 2-5 &
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there is a parallel dimension, just one millimeter away from this one, where all of the tragedies on earth never happened. an earth so much like our own that it has our same creatures. magnificent fish that rainbow the oceans, huge whales that sing sonar to babies, and nurse their young, floating at sea.
New York City ! Vote NO on proposals 2-5 &
there is a parallel dimension, just one millimeter away from this one, where all of the tragedies on earth never happened. an earth so much like our own that it has our same creatures. magnificent fish that rainbow the oceans, huge whales that sing sonar to babies, and nurse their young, floating at sea.
RANIA LEE KHALIL
علم البيئة العالم الثالث
The
Third World
Ecology Trilogy
and other works
PALESTINIAN WILDLIFE SERIES
expanded cinema performance
arabic & english subtitles
2016
Palestinian Wildlife Series appropriates footage from a nature documentary on African Wildlife - shot from a television set in Palestine - to reflect on parallel issues of displacement, mediation, representation and extinction among human and non-human beings.
Palestinian Wildlife Series is part one of the Third World Ecology Trilogy, which meditates on devastation from colonialism across animal, plant and human life.
Palestinian Wildlife Series was created with the support of the Kone Foundation and Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art.
THE PAN AFRICAN ASIAN WOMEN’S ORGANIZATION
CAIRO TO CONAKRY, 1960 - 1965
slide projection, video, live performance
2019
Combining family archives with ecological records,
The Pan-African Asian Women’s Organization,
Cairo - Conakry 1960 - 1965 reflects on a women’s rights
organization, co-founded by Rania Lee Khalil’s maternal
grandmother Aida Hamdi.
The Gamaya’at el Ma’ra had headquarters in Conakry Guinea
and Cairo Egypt, two of the first African nations to achieve
independence from colonial rule - as well as the home countries’
of its two indigenous female co- founders. This women’s organization
was formed at a time of widespread socialist movements
for independence in Africa, Asia and the Americas,
while Hamdi served in Egypt’s Ministry of Education under
anti colonial President Gamal Abdel Nassesr.
In this moving image, part of a scene entitled “Families of
Assassinated Leaders”, we see a sampling of the minerals and
animal life extracted by Belgians in the Congo between
1898 and 1961 (including Uranium sold to the U.S.’s
Manhattan project, to make the world’s first atomic bomb).
This project was created with the support of the CIMO
and Kone Foundations, Finland.
The Gamayat el Mara, Pan African Asian Women’s Organization,
Egyptian delegation, Cairo 1961. This meeting honored
Algerian Revolutionaries Djamila Bouhired and Zohra Drif,
and was organized by Rania Lee Khalil’s maternal grandmother,
Aida Hamdi.
Aida Hamdi stands behind Bouhired and Drif
(both seated, center right, holding flowers)- though dressed in clothes
of mourning, she is pictured smiling, in a black dress.
Djamila Bourhired and Zohra Drif played significant roles
in the armed resistance that ended one hundred and twenty two
years of French settler colonization in Algeria.
Their roles are well documented, including within
Yousef Chahine’s 1958 film Jamila the Algerian
and Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, 1966.
Bouhired and Drif were welcomed by Egyptian
president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the same trip.
(image lower right corner).
The following day
Djamilla Bouhired would be photographed by the Egyptian press
laughng with singer Abdel Halim Hafez and friends.