Noam Shuster-Eliassi & Amber Fares: Coexistence, My Ass!

🎉 It’s Noam Shuster-Eliassi & Amber Fares week on the podcast!❤️ Before I share more about my guest, ⁠consider supporting us on Patreon⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Noam is an Israeli activist and comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam), a mixed community where Palestinians and Jews live together by choice. 👉🏽 Amber is an award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her directorial debut Speed Sisters, which aired internationally on Netflix, Al Jazeera and RAI. Her directing credits include We Are Agenda (Amazon, 2023), Gutsy Ep5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning With Laughter (Al Jazeera’s “Witness" 2021), Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). Amber also served as cinematographer and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning The Judge (PBS, 2017), was the cinematographer on Life After (Sundance, 2025) and both produced and shot the short film The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2025).Coexistence, My Ass! follows Noam as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. This is a film that began as something completely different. Because of Covid and escalated settler violence in the West Bank and ultimately because of the genocide which began several years into making this film. It’s stunning and I can’t wait for you to hear more about it in this conversation.   ✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠!👕 ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, and ⁠Youtube⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!