Gaza On Screen: An Interview with Film Festival Curator, Nadia Yaqub

This April, Palestine Cuts presented Gaza On Screen, a three-day film festival curated by Nadia Yaqub, Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, showcasing films from Gaza. The program included screenings of 13 short and feature-length films, a masterclass with director Abdel Salam Shehada, a student film showcase and Q&A and an academic panel.

Read an interview with Nadia Yaqub by Laura Charney, a Master’s student in Human Rights at Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, about Yaqub’s research and experience curating the Gaza on Screen film festival.

For more information about Gaza On Screen, visit the event listing.