WATCH | CONVO W/ FILMMAKERS JUNA SULEIMAN + MONA BENYAMIN, MODERATED BY NADIA YAQUB

Missed our event with Juna Suleiman, Mona Benyamin and Nadia Yaqub? Watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.

Conversation + Q&A with Palestinian directors Juna Suleiman and Mona Benyamin and moderator Nadia Yaqub (UNC Chapel Hill). Discussion topics include interpersonal relationships and generational differences within Palestinian society, censorship, making film under occupation and the power of film to challenge viewers. For panelist bios and film synopses, click here.

The conversation held on 26 Jan 2021 was presented as part of 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN,' a semester-long collaboration between the Center for Palestine Studies and LIFTA Volumes and is co-presented by Cher Asad and Lena Mansour.

The series is co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University.

Don’t miss ‘Palestinian Feminist Discourses: Contemporary Views and Emerging Movements,’ the next event in the program, scheduled for 11 Feb 2021, with Riya Al'Sanah, Nour Swirki, Yara Hawari, and Ghadir al Shafie and moderated by Aamer Ibraheem.

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