EUME Discussions
EUME Discussions
EUME holds a rich network of scholars who keep the contact, the cooperation and exchange over years. For a general public EUME organizes roundtables, panel discussions or other public events, as film series, with EUME Fellows and other international scholars connected to the research program.
EUME Discussions
Thu 20 Jun 2019 | 19:00–22:00
Sudan: From War and Separation to Revolution?
Beats of the Antonov by Hajooj Kuka (documentary, 2014) — Film screening and discussion
Thu 16 May 2019 | 19:30–22:00
Independent Egyptian Cinema
Poisonous Roses by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh (fiction, 2018) — Film screening and discussion
Thu 25 Apr 2019 | 19:30–22:00
How Human are New Migration Policies?
Counting Tiles by Cynthia Choucair (documentary, 2018) — Film screening and discussion
Thu 07 Mar 2019 | 19:00–21:00
Taking Refuge: Weaving Memory and History in Comics
A Conversation with Zeina Abirached (comic artist) and Rasha Chatta (EUME Fellow 2017-19), introduced by Aaron Tugendhaft (Bard College Berlin)
Thu 21 Feb 2019 | 19:00–20:30
Finding a Consensus Between Islamic and Liberal/Secular Thought and Politics
Conversation: Rasheed Ghanoushi (Tunisia), Yassin Al Hajj Saleh and Amr Hamzawy (both Fellows at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Thu 07 Feb 2019 | 18:30–22:30
Fanon, Africa and the Arab World
Introduction to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” (1961) and film screening of “Concerning Violence” by Göran Hugo Olsson
Thu 17 Jan 2019 | 19:30–22:00
Egyptian Realities and the Cinema of the Absurd
Film screening and discussion: Before I Forget by Mariam Mekiwi & The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375 by Omar El-Zohairy
Thu 13 Dec 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Flying into Palestine
Film screening and discussion: 5 Minutes from Home by Nahed Awwad (Documentary, 2007, Palestine)
Thu 22 Nov 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Poetics of Post-Revolution Cinema
Film Screening and Discussion: Cactus Flower by Hala ElKoussy
Thu 25 Oct 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Discoveries from the Palestinian Archives
Film Screening and Discussion: Because the Roots Will Not Die by Nabiha Lotfi (Documentary, 1977, Lebanon/Palestine)
Thu 20 Sep 2018 | 19:30–22:00
On the Poetics of Young Arab Documentary
Film screening and discussion: “Birds of September” (Tuyur Aylul) by Sarah Francis (Documentary, 2013, Lebanon/Qatar)
Thu 14 Jun 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Love and Gender in Times of Displacement
Film screening and discussion: “Eccomi...Eccoti” by Raed Rafei (Documentary, 2017, Lebanon)
Thu 17 May 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Female Subjectivity and Revolution
Film screening and discussion: “Dawn" by Nadine Salib, “Catharsis" by Alia Ayman and “Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc” by Iman Kamel
Thu 19 Apr 2018 | 19:30–22:00
Freedom of Press in Egypt
Film screening and discussion with Taher Mokhtar (al-Nadeem Center), Aya Ibrahim (Deutsche Welle) and Ilyas Saliba (Amnesty International)
Thu 15 Mar 2018 | 19:00–21:30
Layn – Where to?
Film screening and lecture: “Layn – Where to?” (by Fadi Yeni Turk, Documentary, 2006, Lebanon)