Beyond Spring
Thursday 25.01.2018 7:30 PM | Club
Admission: €5
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ EUME (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe) / Mayadin al-Tahrir e.V.
Curation: Viola Shafik
Co-Operation
On this evening, the Arabic film series BEYOND SPRING presents two films to mark the 6th anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution: "Women, art, bodies" and invites the audience to the accompanying panel discussion
The Planting of Girls
Documentary by Viola Shafik, 1999, Egypt, 37 min., Arabic with English subtitles
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Although female genital mutilation (FGM, the partial or complete removal of and/or damage to the external sexual organs) is legally prohibited in Egypt, and is not allowed to be performed in public or private clinics, according to official statistics at the end of the 1990s approximately 96% of all adult women in Egypt had been subject to the practice of FGM. |
The Thread and the Wall
Documentary by Mohamed Khaled, 2015, Egypt, 49 min., with English subtitles
This film was created in conjunction with the Women On Walls (WOW) graffiti project that was carried out at the beginning of 2013. Its goal was to use the art of graffiti to thematise women’s issues and women’s rights and to simultaneously contribute to the empowerment of female graffiti artists themselves.
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More than 40 female artists made their street graffiti in four different Egyptian cities: Mansoura, Alexandria, Cairo and Luxor.
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PANEL discussion
After the film screening we warmly welcome the following guests to take part in a panel discussion:
- Dina El-Sharnouby (political scientist, fellow at Humboldt University)
- Ahmed Badawi (political scientist, FU)
- Hoda Salah (political scientist, Cologne University)
- Grafitti artist Hanaa El- Deghem
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Beyond Spring - Arab FILM SERIES
In 2010, the Tunisian protest movement triggered a wave of upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa that became known as “the Arab Spring”. However, there is also a history to tell beyond “Spring”.
Since 2014, the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN has been highlighting films from several Arab countries as part of the Arab Film Series, with this specific selection of films curated by Viola Shafik.
It aims at exploring some major social and political issues in the region and further our understanding of various dynamics in regards to class, gender and politics in general, as well as explore topics concerning confessionalism, social justice and the question of Palestine.
The screenings will be accompanied by moderated panels with academic experts from the Berlin-based research program Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.
THE CURATOR
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Viola Shafik, PhD is a filmmaker, curator and film scholar. She has authored among others Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, AUC-Press, Cairo, 1998 and Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUC-Press, 2007. She has lectured at the American University in Cairo and Zürich University and is in the selection committee of the Rawi Screenwriters Lab and the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. She has directed several documentaries, most notably Ali im Paradies/My Name is not Ali (2011) and Arij - Scent of Revolution (2014). She currently teaches at Humboldt University Berlin, as well as at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. |
An event in cooperation with Mayadin al Tahrir e.V. and EUME (Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe).
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