The narrator of this story is on a Belgian train. Through encounters with other travellers, her personal story begins to intertwine with that of her relatives living in occupied Palestine. Their voices speak of their mother tongue Palestinian Arabic and of Hebrew, the ‘official’ language of their hometown. How do the two languages relate to each other inside a person's mind? How does that relationship shape our understanding of borders and displacement? With humour, anger, love and absurdity, Language: no broblem embraces the limits of a language's translatability while reflecting on processes of resistance.

about

Marah Haj Hussein (born 1998) is a dancer, actor and performance artist from Kofor Yassif in occupied Palestine. She lives in Antwerp, where she graduated from the Bachelor of Dance at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2021. In June 2023, she completed her master's degree in Drama at KASK in Ghent. By merging these two disciplines, Haj Hussein questions the line that separates text from movement and is always looking for possible ways to allow both into the performative space.

image (c) Boris Breugel