farah nabulsi, welcome to hardtalk. good to be here.an your professional life as a young, successful investment banker in high finance. a decade ago, you committed yourself full—time to writing and making films. why the dramatic shift? the long story short is that i went home—home. so i am british — born, raised, educated in london — but my heritage is palestinian. and so, yes, around ten years ago, i went back to palestine for the first time as an adult, and i witnessed first—hand the discrimination, the injustice that's taking place in militarily occupied and colonised palestine, witnessed the apartheid there as well. and despite thinking i knew what was going on, i realised that there was just no, erm, no substitute for seeing it with my own eyes, and came back to what i consider my life of privilege, and felt this deep desire to tell these human stories about the palestinians that i'd come across during my travels, as well as loving film and cinema. and the rest is history, i began... yeah. first, you've characterised it in a very p