Rethinking Palestine Through the Arts: A Workshop

Presenters:

-- Amal Amireh (Literature, George Mason University)
"Of Heroes and Men: The Crisis of Masculinity in the Post-Oslo Palestinian Narrative”

-- Najat Rahman (Comparative Literature, University of Montreal)
"Rethinking the Nation through the Diasporic: Poetry in the Wake of Mahmoud Darwish"

-- Nick Denes (Palestine Film Foundation and Subversive Film Ltd.)
“Approaching the Palestinian Revolution in Film: Questions of Spectatorship and Affect”

Reports From the Field: Art Activism in the Eastern Mediterranean

Layla Quran (Palestine), Marios Antoniou (Cyprus),   Ariel Wyman (Egypt)

Free and open to the public at the Fedex Global Education Center, Rm 3024, on November 30 from 1-5pm. Refreshments will be served.

Sponsors: the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the UNC Department of Asian Studies, Carolina Seminars, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and the Duke-UNC Middle East Consortium. For more information contact Nadia Yaqub at Yaqub@email.unc.edu.