Writing After the Disaster

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Akram Zaatari, Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013). 34 min film. Still.

“The chronicler who narrates events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accord with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost to history.” Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: Volume 4, 1938-1940, ed. Michael W Jennings (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003).

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