Articles by: Ahmad Al-Bazz

The projection room at al-Assi cinema.

Photo Essay: Palestine’s Disappearing Cinemas

One by one, Palestine’s classic cinemas are being erased. Municipal bulldozers razed Nablus’ al-Assi cinema in late June after the abandoned property was purchased from its owners. It was the second Palestinian cinema in the West Bank to be demolished in less than a year, after Cinema Jenin was razed last December. Al-Assi, which opened in the early 1950s, was shuttered[Read More…]

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