Film: Jews of Egypt II
by Amir Ramsis
Egypt 2014
Documentary, Arabic OmeU
Guests:
Najat Abdulhaq (Berlin) &
Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien / EUME)
Curator: Viola Shafik
This Film Screening and the Discussion is part of the Arabic Film Series "Beyond Spring", organized by Mayadin Al-Tahrir e.V., EUME and the Werkstatt der Kulturen.
Synopsis:
This film is a sequel to Amir Ramsis’ Jews of Egypt I. Narrowing its scope from the histories and testimonies of exiled Egyptian Jews it focuses on two Jewish sisters, Magda and (late) Nadia Haroun. Through them the film offers an intimate portrait of some of the last 12 remaining women of Egypt’s Jewish community.
Najat Abdulhaq, Palestinian/ German scholar, PhD at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg 2012, higher diplom in economics and international relations at the University of Leipzig, B.A in economics and journalism at the Bir Zeit Univeristy, author of the book " Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt, Entrepreneurship and Business before Nasser" I.B. Tauris/ London. One o f the few Arab scholars specelized on the Arab Jews.
Besides several academic activities , Dr. Abdulhaq works as consultant for media and politics among others at Media in Cooperation and Transition and Berlin Insiders.
Georges Khalil is the Academic Coordinator of the Forum Transregionale Studien. He is also responsible for Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe (EUME), a research program that seeks to rethink keyconcepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. He has been the Coordinator of the "Working Group Modernity and Islam" from 1998 to 2006 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and studied History and Islamic Studies in Hamburg and Cairo, as well as European Studies at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. He has been a 1995-1996 fellow of the College for International Affairs, Robert Bosch Foundation. He is the co-editor (with Catherine David and Bernd Scherer) of Di/Visions. Kultur und Politik des Nahen Ostens (Wallstein, 2009), (with Benoit Junod, Stefan Weber and Gerhard Wolf) Islamic Art and the Museum. Approaches to Art and Archeology of the Muslim World in the 21st Century (Saqi, London 2012), and (with Friederike Pannewick) of Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/of the Political in ArabicLiterature since the 1940s (Wiesbaden 2015).