Palestinian diaspora: when a globetrotter goes home
[Episode 68]
Akram Safari is a photographer and director. Born in Gerusalem in 1962, he studied cinema and video technologies in Italy, and later he got a degree in Art and Social Sciences in Birzeit. Today Safari lives in his homeland Palestine. “I came back to follow my ideas” said the artist. Safari has been press photographer in the 70’s in Gerusalem, and in his 2001 movie which keeps being shown in Italy, “Songs of a narrow path”, he made a portray of his city after 30 years of occupation.
