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Apr
16
6:00 PM18:00

Elia Suleiman: MELLON VISITING ARTISTS & THINKERS PROGRAM | SCREENINGS + PANELS

Screening of Divine Intervention, a modern day tragicomedy, followed by Q&A with director and Film faculty James Schamus . Introduction from actor and producer Danny Glover .

Poetics and Person: Biographical Cinema
Tuesday April 22, 2014, 6 PM
Davis Auditorium
Columbia University

Diary of a Beginner, a short film shot in Cuba by Suleiman, is followed by a panel discussion with the director and Columbia Faculty Elizabeth Povinelli and Nico Baumabchon the topic of biographical cinema today.

Elia Suleiman is a Mellon Visiting Artist & Thinker this spring at the School of the Arts.

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A Poetry Reading and Q & A with Icelandic-Palestinian Poet Mazen Maarouf
Apr
14
12:30 PM12:30

A Poetry Reading and Q & A with Icelandic-Palestinian Poet Mazen Maarouf


The Center for Palestine Studies presented a poetry reading by Icelandic-Palestinian poet Mazen Maarouf

 
 

Mazen Maarouf

Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer, lauded as a rising international literary star. He has published three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn't Capture BirdsOur Grief Resembles Bread, and most recently An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline, which has been translated into several languages including into French by Samira Negrouche. His work is currently being translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal.

He has written literary and theatre criticism in various Arabic magazines and newspapers namely An-Nahar and Assafir (Lebanon), Al-Quds-el-Arabi (London) and Qantara (Paris); and he has translated numerous Icelandic poets as well as the following novels in Arabic: The Blue FoxHands of my Father by Myron UhlbergThe Story of the Blue Planet and Dwarfstone. He resides in Reykjavik.


 

Nathalie Handal

The poetry reading was followed by a Q&A and discussion moderated by poet and writer Nathalie Handal, a specialist in contemporary international literatures, she teaches at Columbia University.


Cosponsors

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

Free and open to the public.


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"Families Interrupted:" A Photographic Exhibition on the Ban of Family Unification for Palestinians in Israel
Feb
17
to Feb 21

"Families Interrupted:" A Photographic Exhibition on the Ban of Family Unification for Palestinians in Israel


Join Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University at Alwan for the Arts for the New York opening of the photographic exhibition, Families Interrupted, on the subject of the ban on family unification for Palestinians in Israel.

Through a series of anonymous portraits, this exhibition by Jenny Nyman captures the reality of the many thousands of Palestinian families who are forced to live in the shadows by the Israeli Citizenship Law. By lifting the thin veil of anonymity that envelops them, the images give insights into how the ban turns them into families interrupted, struggling to lead a normal life together. By photographing them in their personal spaces, it offers glimpses of their day-to-day human existence as families.

The evening event at on February 21 will also include a presentation by and Q&A with Adalah director Hassan Jabareen about the Citizenship Law in Israel, as well as the screening of a short film on the ban on family unification by Ayed Fadel and Mike Kardosh.



The exhibition will be open from February 17 - 21, 2014.

Open ever day from 12-6 P.M. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor, NY

Suggested donation: $10

The project was supported by UNDP, and was carried out in cooperation with Society of St. Yves and Sidreh Nissaa Alnagab.


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