Welcome to MZAB, an art house media platform producing short films, documentaries, animation + a quarterly anthropological publication. We explore adventure, culture and spirituality across the globe.
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Excerpt of ‘Malcolm X’ by Gwendolyn Brooks
“And in a soft and fundamental houra sorcery devout and verticalbeguiled the world.” ~Excerpt of poem ‘Malcolm X’ by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1969.
Wombs and Bilums: Post-natal Care in Papua New Guinea
red rooms past, passed to room to room to me, this present present Wombs and pearls and stories like fleshy heirlooms to birth you- Soukeyna O. Women and Wombs: Tangible History The bilum bag is a frayed womb, a ropey stringy thing of not only dancing fibres, but legacies of strength and resilience, legacy intertwined…
Occupied Alphabet
I.I use google translate to convey English phrases in Arabic sometimesA client tells me she is depressedAnd her father has been having tremors since the war startedBut usually when he is doing typically stressful things like dealing with an angry customer orFixing that damn light in the bathroom that won’t stop flickering even though the…
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Vanguard of Exploration: Farha Bi on the Road
“Up until this point, I had been physically and mentally preparing for cycling through the Caucuses in winter which reaches -30C so when I had to pick a new place to cycle, my brain was like, I want to go somewhere hot! And so, I decided to go South, towards the Sun. As I started to move, the plan came clearly into my mind that actually what I should be doing is cycling to South Africa. I quickly started making calculations, mapping out distances to be covered and determined I would get to South Africa in 18 months.”
Farha Bi
O To Live! To Build a Quiet Life: Deep Time, Eschatology and the Anthropocene
“To paraphrase Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, if we are on the brink of eternity should we not think deeply about our time here? To not think about time is to subvert the human intellect. To not think about death is to sabotage our time on this abode. And to quote Sheikh Ammar alShukry of AlMaghrib Institute, ‘so much of us has died already’. If we are earth, land grabs diminish our volume day by day until there is nothing left of us but death. To not realise we are being taken by degrees is like Shakespeare’s Gratiano, to request to play the fool despite overwhelming avenues to dignity. “
Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
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Between the Two Worlds
This is a story about an unnamed French / Senegalese-Ghanaian Muslim woman who at age 19 rediscovers her faith and tries to balance between the two worlds – the seemingly futile life she lives on earth and the spiritual world of the unseen realm she now believes in. The monodrama is avant garde and poetic- as strange as the new situation she finds herself in when newly trying to navigate between deen (the spiritual) and dunya (life on earth).
This is a story of her struggle to balance ‘between the two worlds’.
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Welcome to MZAB, an art house media platform producing short films, documentaries, animation + a quarterly anthropological publication. We explore adventure, culture and spirituality across the globe.
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