INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT / SPEAKING FOR ONESELF, SPEAKING FOR OTHERS

Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman take a shot at the western media’s image of the Arab world. In this militant combination of American, European and Israeli film fragments, excerpts from documentaries and TV news and specially filmed footage of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1988, it becomes clear how repeated falsifications are transformed unnoticed into a ’genuine’ foreign policy. A process of displacement and deconstruction is enacted, attempting to arrest the imagery and ideology, to provide a space for a marginal voice that has consistently been denied expression in the media.