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EVENTS
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Film Screening Series: Arab Cities

Tuesday | Oct 15, 2019
5:30pm - 8:30pm
On Campus
Building: Wurster Hall Room Number: 172

Curated by: Heba AlNajada, Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture

In collaboration with:

Laura Belik, Ph.D. Student in Architecture

Ahmad Diab, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies

Stefania Pandolfo, Professor in the Department of Anthropology

 

As a continuation of the last year’s CED Diversity Platforms project ‘Screening Series: Urban Rights in Brazil’. This year, we are pleased to present a film series about Arab cities. Over the Fall semester, we will be presenting two films from Bilad Al-Sham (present-day Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon) and one from Al-Maghrib. By engaging in conversations about the architectural, political and historical experiences of this region, through accounts of lives, buildings, cities  and their transfigurations, the films explore the destruction of the city of Homs, and everyday life under siege in the wake of the Syrian war (Talal Derki, 2013); young women working humiliating jobs in a shrimp conditioning workshop, in Tangier, Morocco, and ganging up in fast-paced incursions through the city, its male worlds, and its international border zones at night (Leila Kilani, 2011); and the chronicles of a Palestinian city, its remaining inhabitants, exiles, new settlers and returnees in the wake of the creation of Israel (Elia Suleiman, 2010). Each film screening will be followed by a faculty lead commentary, and in the case of ‘On the Edge’, by a conversation with the filmmaker, then opening to a discussion between the audience and student/faculty panel.

 

Film Screenings:

Film Screening: ‘Al-Awda ila Homs’ (The Return to Homs)

Director: Tarek Derki, 2013

Commentary by Ahmad Diab (Department of Near-Eastern Studies) and Ussama Makdisi (Department of History)

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

5:30-8.30 pm

Wurster Hall, Room 172

 

Film Screening: ‘Sur la Planche’ (On the Edge), 2013

Conversation with film director: Leila Kilani

Interlocutor: Stefania Pandolfo (Department of Anthropology)

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019

5:30-8.30 pm

Wurster Hall, Room 170

 

Film Screening: ‘Al-Zaman Al-Baqi’ (The Time that Remains), 2010

Director: Elia Suleiman, 2009

Presentation by: Ahmad Diab (Department of Near-Eastern Studies)

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

5:30-8.30 pm

Wurster Hall, Room 172

 

These events are funded by the Arcus Endowment through the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design.

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