Walid Ra'ad / The Atlas Group

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Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version)
2001, (16.54 min.)

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) is an experimental documentary about "The Western Hostage Crisis."

The crisis refers to the abduction and detention of Westerners like Terry Anderson, and Terry Waite in Lebanon in the 80s and early 90s by "Islamic militants."
This episode directly and indirectly consumed Lebanese, U.S., French, and British political and public life, and precipitated a number of high-profile political scandals like the Iran-Contra affair in the U.S.

In Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version), the "Western Hostage Crisis" is examined through the testimony of Souheil Bachar.
Mr. Bachar was held hostage in Lebanon between 1983 and 1993. What is remarkable about Souheil's captivity is that he was the only Arab to have been detained with the Western hostages kidnapped in Beirut in the 1980s.
In fact, Souheil was held for 3 months in 1985 in the same cell as five American men: Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Benjamin Weir, Marting Jenco, and David Jacobsen.

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Walid Ra'ad grew up in Lebanon and now lives and works in the U.S.

His works include textual analysis and video and photography projects, and concentrate on the Lebanese civil wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and documentary theory and practice.

His videoworks include Up To The South (with Jayce Salloum), and the recently completed collection of video shorts titled, The Dead Weight of Quarrel Hangs.

His photogaphy projects include The Beirut Archive-an ongoing documentary photography project of post-civil war Beirut.

Walid is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation, started in 1996 to promote historical research of the visual culture of the Arab world, and to promote experimental video production in the region.

Quelle: http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?HOSTAGETHE