Rania Lee Khalil

Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net Rania Lee Khalil Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:19:06 +0000 https://ranialeekhalil.net en Home https://ranialeekhalil.net/Home-1 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:47:33 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Home-1         dear friends, i recently founded   <img width="1401" height="1060" width_o="1401" height_o="1060" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48510c58d8680811279a780c06e4bb4aca5a31be6fa24b83348eaedcd537a025/CA-shapes-white.png" data-mid="238881178" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48510c58d8680811279a780c06e4bb4aca5a31be6fa24b83348eaedcd537a025/CA-shapes-white.png" />                                                   come visit  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. October 2023 We condemn 75 Years of land theft, genocide, white supremacy and settler colonialism by the state of Israel, the US and their Western allies. We call for the full return of PALESTINE in the same breath with which we call for the return of ALL stolen lands, including (but not limited to) the land presently known as the US.  We call for the return of all plant life, moutains, waters, snowscapes, islands, minerals & ‘environmental oversight’ to the indigenous communities who lovingly coexisted with earth for centuries.   We call for  reparations and repatriation for all beings harmed by 500 years of colonialism.  رانيا لي خليل RANIA LEE KHALIL علم البيئة العالم الثالث The Third World Ecology Trilogy                                                                              and other works                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A moment in Germany https://ranialeekhalil.net/A-moment-in-Germany Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:19:06 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/A-moment-in-Germany  from my grandmother Aida Hamdi’s archives.   Pan-African Asian Woman’s Organization, Cairo-Conakry delagation trip to Women’s Conference in Germany, 1959.     Palestinian Wildlife Series https://ranialeekhalil.net/Palestinian-Wildlife-Series Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:24:41 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Palestinian-Wildlife-Series                            PALESTINIAN WILDLIFE SERIES expanded cinema performancearabic & english subtitles   2016 Palestinian Wildlife Series appropriates footage from a nature documentary on African Wildlife - shot from a television set in Palestine in 2011 - 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 https://ranialeekhalil.net/The-Pan-African-Asian-Women-s-Organization-Cairo-to-Conakry-1960-1965 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:22:11 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/The-Pan-African-Asian-Women-s-Organization-Cairo-to-Conakry-1960-1965                             THE PAN AFRICAN ASIAN WOMEN’S ORGANIZATION CAIRO TO CONAKRY, 1960 - 1965slide 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. Honoring Djamilla Bouhired in Cairo, 1961 https://ranialeekhalil.net/Honoring-Djamilla-Bouhired-in-Cairo-1961 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:19:04 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Honoring-Djamilla-Bouhired-in-Cairo-1961  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 documented in film and books including   Yousef Chahine’s 1958 film Jamila the Algerian,  Gilles Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, 1966and Zohra Drif 2016 book, Inside the Battle of Algiers:Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter.     Bouhired and Drif were welcomed by Egyptian  president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the same trip.   (image lower right corner).  The following day Djamilla Bouhired was photographed by the Egyptian press  laughng with Abdel Halim Hafez and friends.     Sinai (a story i tell my daughter) https://ranialeekhalil.net/Sinai-a-story-i-tell-my-daughter Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:19:58 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Sinai-a-story-i-tell-my-daughter SINAI (a story i tell my daughter) single channel video 2019- 2020 Combining sensual movements of water and sea plants in the Egyptian Sinai,   this short essay film reflects on a twin dimention of earth where the tragedies to our planet and its indigenous beings never happened. This project was created with the support of the Kone Foundation. Wildloss Encyclopedia https://ranialeekhalil.net/Wildloss-Encyclopedia Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:18:28 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Wildloss-Encyclopedia Wildloss Enyclopedia, IN PROGRESS  Wildloss Encyclopedia appropriates images from an 1969 encyclopedia to meditate on the beauty and wonder of living and extinct animal life.  Arranged through shifting color palettes, this piece reflects on Western, scientific categorization of animal life in relation to the oneness of indigenous animal-human relationships and cosmologies.  The date of this encyclopedia commemorates 54 years of the highest  period of animal extinction in human history.     Plant Frequency https://ranialeekhalil.net/Plant-Frequency Tue, 24 Aug 2021 02:44:07 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Plant-Frequency Plant Frequency single channel video Plant Frequency uses an analog video mixer as a means though which to view the frequency of plants otherwise invisible to many  earth people. Sinai: Gold Light Across https://ranialeekhalil.net/Sinai-Gold-Light-Across Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:06:31 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Sinai-Gold-Light-Across SINAI : GOLD LIGHT ACROSS single channel video, 2015 inturupting ahistoric tourism in naturedigital video, 3’33  سیناء: ضوء ذهبي ممتد قناة فیدیو فردیة، ٢٠١٥ مقاطعة للسیاحة المفتقرة للمنظور التاریخي في الطبیعة فیدیو رقمي، ٣٣٣ Videos for Dancers https://ranialeekhalil.net/Videos-for-Dancers Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:37:03 +0000 Rania Lee Khalil https://ranialeekhalil.net/Videos-for-Dancers VIDEOS FOR DANCERSperformance as research, 2013-2014 This Performance-as-Research reflects on the movment of plants and animals as dance.live sound by James Andean and Alejandro Olearte university of arts, theatre academy, helsinki <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/727689ada9e51914a4fa46813c3ae46b791443cfb08a115bbe6c6b72ee63d34b/2014-05-22-DSCF6205_o.JPG" data-mid="59329096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/727689ada9e51914a4fa46813c3ae46b791443cfb08a115bbe6c6b72ee63d34b/2014-05-22-DSCF6205_o.JPG" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7adc3a96d06e414906d1ac930605a1b95b59b217c19e0e5f7d8392deb1621948/2014-05-22-DSCF6073_o.JPG" data-mid="59609480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7adc3a96d06e414906d1ac930605a1b95b59b217c19e0e5f7d8392deb1621948/2014-05-22-DSCF6073_o.JPG" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d88ca13bb941586b889c95fa08e6c68b9e38b8d660f9bb98df433e541d304ee1/2014-05-22-DSCF4826_o.JPG" data-mid="59329098" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d88ca13bb941586b889c95fa08e6c68b9e38b8d660f9bb98df433e541d304ee1/2014-05-22-DSCF4826_o.JPG" /> <img width="4096" height="2730" width_o="4096" height_o="2730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7897f9068a835a69cf3157dd0bd3de0dfc4f89aca911457481f137e200215ccc/2014-05-22-DSCF6184_o.JPG" data-mid="59329025" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7897f9068a835a69cf3157dd0bd3de0dfc4f89aca911457481f137e200215ccc/2014-05-22-DSCF6184_o.JPG" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82823f0a171ca98544de8115f09126f003b66c9bf05fb4eb4f3799bea1359e14/2014-05-22-DSCF4897_o.JPG" data-mid="59329028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82823f0a171ca98544de8115f09126f003b66c9bf05fb4eb4f3799bea1359e14/2014-05-22-DSCF4897_o.JPG" />