Filmowy zapis Arabskiej Wiosny
A Film Record of the Arab Spring

Summary/Abstract: The term Arab Spring refers to mass protests in North African countries and the Middle East in 2011 and 2012, when in some countries the regimes collapsed or the opposition was activated, whilst in other they resulted in armed conflicts. Feature and documentary films from Egypt and Syria, showing the genesis and course of the Arab Spring and its consequences from an individual, personal perspective are devoted to these events. A list of various poetics and film themes reveals the social dimension of events whose heroes are ordinary people, families, women, young activists involved in the revolution. The text shows various images of the Arab Spring, including a tense atmosphere before its outbreak, the euphoria of revolutionary actions and the tragic nature of military intervention that led to civil war in Syria. In the analysis of selected films, apart from scientific studies, books by Samar Yazbek, a Syrian woman writer who described revolutionary and military experiences from the perspective of an active participant, were used.

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