Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 - The Horse of Jenin - video Dailymotion

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The Horse of Jenin at Edinburg Fringe Festival   Presented by Palestine Comedy Club/The Pleasance, produced by Troupe Courage A universal story of resilience and imagination, written and performed by Palestinian comedian and actor Alaa Shehada. Blending storytelling, mask and stand-up, the show follows the life of a boy growing up in Jenin, Occupied Palestine, who, like any child, just wants to play. After a 2002 invasion, local children and a German artist built a five-metre horse from debris, a symbol of freedom and resistance. In 2023, it was destroyed. With humour and heart, Shehada asks what became of the Horse of Jenin and rebuilds it on stage from fragments of memory, loss and hope.

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00:30Hello, my name is Alash Hadi, I'm an actor and comedian all the way from Jenin, the West

00:46Bank of Palestine.

00:47I am here in Edinburgh to run the horse of Jenin, is the show of me growing up in the

00:54West Bank in Jenin, and about the statue of the horse that stood in Jenin for 20 years.

00:59After 20 years, the Israeli army came with a bulldozer, a DNR army bulldozer, and they

01:03just removed it from the city.

01:06It's about the story, what is the meaning of the statue of the horse for us as West Bankers,

01:10as Palestinians.

01:11The show is starting from the 30th of July until the 25th of August, almost every day

01:18at 2.20 at the Pleasant's Queen De Moor.

01:21We'll see you there, and Salam.

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 - The Horse of Jenin

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