DI/VISIONS: Opening
Lecture, reading, concert
A lecture given by Sami Zubaida: ”Class, Religion and Ethnicity: Fragments of the Nation“
A reading given by the poets Tamim Al-Bargouthi and Sinan Antoon
A concert featuring oud player Tarek Abdallah
Screening of the filmed conversations
Tarek Abdallah: composer and oud player, Cairo/Marseilles
Tamim Al-Barghouti: a Palestinian poet and political scientist. He lives and works in Cairo. Fellow of the research programme Europe in the Middle East. – The Middle East in Europe 2007/08.
Sami Zubaida: emeritus professor of political science and sociology at Birbeck College, London (Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East, IB Taurus, London 1993)