Ongoing Nakba

Ongoing Nakba
By Basel Nasr
2017, Palestine, 44sec
2D Animation

Sixty-eight years have passed since the Nakba of 1948, the year that marked the expulsion and exodus of the Palestinian people. The Nakba of yesterday is the ongoing reality of today. Palestinians are denied basic human rights as Israel continues to adopt the policies of forcible transfer and apartheid to pave the way for the construction of more Israeli settlements and settlers in occupied Palestine. The continuous vicious colonial attempts to erase the Palestinian identity, to ethnically cleanse the people of Palestine and to humiliate their dignity at the hands of Israel is not only one dark chapter is history, but a daily life under humiliation, oppression and occupation for each and every Palestinian. It’s time for this dark chapter to end and for a new promising one to begin. It’s time for justice in Palestine.

Team:
Produced by: PLO-NAD
Illustration: Aboud Haj Yahya
Animation: Basel Nasr, Abdallah Awwad
Music Track: Lost Soul- by Swan Productions

About Basel Nasr

Basel Nasr is a Designer and Producer working in the field of Animation, Illustration and interactive design. Nasr earned a BSc in Architecture from Birzeit University In 2003. In 2005 Along with a group of young artists, Nasr established ZAN Studio; a multi-discipline art studio specialized in digital art and new media, working on a range of Animation, Interactive and Visual Art projects. In 2008 he received a scholarship from HQSF to pursue his Master’s degree in Animation from the University of California Los Angeles. During his study, Nasr also had the chance to work in two companies as an Interactive Designer for tablet and online children content. After his return to Palestine in 2013, Nasr founded maṣna‘ al rusūm al mutaḥarrikah, an Animation and Interactive Studio.

Basel Nasr is one of our 2022 AFIELD fellows, based in Ramallah, Palestine. Animator, producer and trainer, Basel Nasr founded the initiative “Almasna : The Animation Factory”, in 2015 as a collaborative studio that uses animation to tell stories inspired by daily life, and create videos that help raise awareness about local issues calling for political and social change. In 2022, they also established “The Almasna Workshop”, a space for learning, experimentation and training in the field of animation. Their aim is to promote animation as an ever-evolving art form, and to help develop this art into an industry in Palestine.