Carolina Hall room 220

From Director Yasmin Fedda, the Islamicate Graduate Student Association is honored to screen Queens of Syria. This documentary tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the ancient Greek tragedy Trojan Women. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in…