Presentations, talks, projections

4-6 p.m.

Identities on the move: Exiles, Diasporas and the Poetics of Globalization

Presentation: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin.

Followed by a round-table discussion with Tamim Al-Barghouti, Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh and Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

19-22 h

I am the one who brings flowers to her grave

D: Hala Al Abdallah and Ammar el Beik, Syria, 2006, 110 min.

Projection in the presence of the director Hala Al Abdallah. Film in Arabic with English subtitles, Talk in French with English translation

Participants:

Hala Al Abdallah: film-maker, Damascus/Paris.

Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh: poet and author, formerly Fellow of the Arbeitskreises Moderne und Islam 2003/04; teaches Cultural Studies and Islamic Studies at Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank

Tamim Al-Barghouti: poet and political scientist, fellow of the research programme “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2007/08”, lives in Cairo.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin: historian, professor of Jewish studies, member des research programme “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe”.

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