Hacking Gebran Bassil’s Xenophobia

This film uses found/archival footage to “hack” the xenophobic rhetoric of the (now former) Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. By weaving together snippets of interviews, news reports, and other related media that feature Bassil’s xenophobia against Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with material that shows the frailty of his arguments, the inhumanity of his stance, and the illegality of his policies, this film unweaves Bassil’s xenophobic narrative vis-à-vis Syrian refugees in Lebanon.