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on November 14, 2011
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
2 New Filastine Music Videos: Colony Collapse & Gendjer by Grey Filastine
A pair of music videos filmed on the fault lines of ecological and social friction in the developing world.
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132% funded $6,033 pledged
- 134 backers
- Funded Dec 31, 2011
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on August 17, 2011
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
Posted project update #6rolling again, finally: now with publisher!
Post CommentAfter all the enthusiasm and support we received initially, we were sort of surprised to discover how difficult it was to find a publisher to take on the kind of book we wanted to write: hence the hiatus in updates.
At last, Helena Cobban of Just World Books (in collaboration with OR Books) has stepped up, and this week we're signing a contract with her. Hooray! So "The Gaza Kitchen" will finally have a proper outlet in a handsome full-color large-format book, including over 50 of the recipes we collected in Gaza along with personal stories, anecdotes about farming and food autonomy, and insights into daily life in the Gaza Strip.
While the book itself won't be in print and available until mid-2012, now that we know what the final format of the book will be we are reactivating the blog: http://gazakitchens.wordpress.com/
Through the blog, we invite all of you that want to participate in the creation of this book - and have a little time and appetite - to help us out by kitchen testing some of our recipes. The more kitchens they are tested in, the better! Throughout the next few months we will be posting draft-recipes, and we encourage you to try them out and let us know what works for you and what doesn't.
We're very excited to get this project moving again!
m&l
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on February 20, 2011
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
Beyond Digital: Morocco - what if the DJ were the NGO? by Beyond Digital
4 artists explore musical innovation in Morocco via collaboration, teaching, documentation, and digital storytelling.
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165% funded $8,270 pledged
- 182 backers
- Funded Mar 09, 2011
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on January 24, 2011
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
HABIBI, the first fiction feature set in Gaza in 15 years by Susan Youssef
"Habibi," a story of forbidden love, is the first fiction feature set in Gaza in over 15 years.
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145% funded $21,755 pledged
- 190 backers
- Funded Jan 28, 2011
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on December 10, 2010
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
"Stranded in the strait" documentary film by alberto and agatha
A heartbreaking story of Indian immigrants stranded in the North of Africa on their way to Europe. Help us to complete the film.
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105% funded $10,570 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded Jan 02, 2011
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on November 18, 2010
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
Posted project update #5greetings, backers!
First of all, sorry for the long lapse in communications. Laila and I are busy processing all the field research we did in Gaza: translating, transcribing, rereading and organizing all the interviews, recipes, etc... Its going very well.
We are also starting to write articles based on our research in various english language publications. We'll cross post them all at our blog:
http://gazakitchens.wordpress.comAs for the world of kickstarter, I would like to encourage you all to have a look at, support, and spread the word about this full length documentary, which I have been involved in for the last couple of years. It is a beautifully filmed intimate portrait of several young men in their long and frustrated journey from the Indian Punjab to Europe:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1498498353/stranded-in-the-strait-documentary-film
Hope all is well with all of you,
yours,
Maggie
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on November 13, 2010
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
Bayou Maharajah: The Life and Music of James Booker by Lily Keber
Bayou Maharajah is a feature-length video documentary on the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker.
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105% funded $10,502 pledged
- 66 backers
- Funded Dec 31, 2010
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on September 14, 2010
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
backed a project
Inshallah: A Video Journey Through the Gaza Strip - Worldwide Preview Screening Tour by Maurice Jacobsen
Inshallah, a 90 minute social and political video journey through the Gaza Strip currently is developing and scheduling an international preview tour.
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132% funded $5,313 pledged
- 28 backers
- Funded Sep 30, 2010
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on September 9, 2010Funded!
The Gaza Kitchen: stories and recipes from the Gaza Strip by Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
Cooking and conversation with women in the Gaza Strip: uncovering a rich culinary tradition.
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150% funded $6,013 pledged
- 76 backers
- Funded Sep 09, 2010
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on September 2, 2010
Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
Posted project update #4Inshallah
Hello dear backers,
I don't know if Kickstarter etiquette allows for encouraging backers of one project to look at another. But our friend and colleague Maurice, an American filmmaker who has been living and working in Gaza for the last year, has just launched a Kickstarter project to support his fantastic video work. I very very much encourage you to have a look, and send the link along to friends and acquaintances:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/938933977/inshallah-a-video-journey-through-the-gaza-strip-w-0Another thing: for those of you who are supposed to recieve postcards from Gaza and haven't yet sent us your addresses, please do so now: Laila is leaving in just a few days, and we'd like to send those off to you before she goes.
As for the work: we are now sifting through hundreds of hours of audio files, translating and transcribing them. Hopefully in the next weeks we'll have a couple of articles to share with you, first glimpses of what the book will contain.
For now, I leave you with this photo of Jamal, a charming fellow and the last guy in Gaza to still make Qidraa the classic, traditional way, learned from his grandfather: rice, meat and spices sealed into a clay pot and slowly turned in a blazing stone oven. The pot is then artfully shattered, and the buttery soft rice pours out.
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Marco Hoffmann on September 3, 2010
Hi,
two ideas came in to my mind and I feel like just posting it for whoever might find it useful. For the transcription remark: http://www.audiotranskription.de/english/f4.htm - I downloaded it in 2008 and the different replay speeds are handy (it is based on free software according to richard stallmann and is without a price now) and the second thought is that Jamie Oliver (a bbc-cook travelling around the world to find new recepie-ideas loving wood-fired ovens) tried to convince the youngest british school-children to eat vegatables and to invent a school-nuriture meal vor 37p, if I remember the tv-documentary correctly.
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Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad
Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian journalist and writer living between Gaza and the US. She is author of the acclaimed blog www.gazamom.com Maggie Schmitt is a freelance writer, researcher and translator based in Madrid.
Thanks for the beautiful postcard! I received it all the way in Arizona ;-)