Qasem Waleed – Doppler Effect
Thursday, 17 September⋅12:30 – 1:00pm
At 12:30pm today – ‘Doppler Effect’
Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, Qasem has been writing about the chaos and violence of Israel’s military bombardments and how they devastate his and his family’s lives. In Doppler Effect, Qasem has tried to find a way to describe Gaza, the reality in which he has been living in, through the lens of science, specifically through quantum mechanics. “As a physicist, my favourite question was – are we alone in the universe? Since the genocide, I must however now reflect on a much smaller scope, are we alone on Earth?”
Music by Silvia Cignoli
Directed and edited by Alan Alpenfelt
Produced by Vanni Bianconi / Tornasole