Lyd in Six Days

Audio Documentary

“Why did we forget Lydd?”

One of the oldest and most significant Palestinian cities, Lydd has been gradually pushed out of collective visibility، known deeply by its own people, yet rarely present in the wider Palestinian narrative.

On May 10th, 2021, the city’s residents joined demonstrations in solidarity with Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah, and Al-Aqsa. What followed marked a turning point in Lydd’s recent history, as the city came under intensified military control and escalating settler violence.

In this 43-minute audio documentary, filmmaker and podcast creator Aida Kaadan traces Lydd across six days: unfolding a layered timeline that reconstructs events, memory, and erasure. The episode asks urgent questions: why has Lydd been so absent from dominant Palestinian narratives? How was it systematically marginalized, and what has kept it at the edges of our collective attention?

This episode of Masafat Podcast, written and created and edited by Aida Kaadan, with editorial work by Rand Khdeir and Shahd Bani Odeh, produced by Kerning Cultures Network and hosted by Heba Afifi.

Sound design by Paul Allouf, fact-checking by Tamara Al-Jubouri, and visual design by Ahmad Saleh, with video by Tala Takla.

Special thanks to everyone who shared their voices and made this work possible: Fidaa Shhadeh, Taysir Shaban, Rami Younis, Khaled Zbarqa, and Aisha Mar.