Introduction by Prof. Liz Reich, Film Studies
“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” is based on the novel by Sam Greenlee and tells the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first Black CIA officer. The film, directed by Ivan Dixon, follows Freeman through his training in the Central Intelligence Agency, and his eventual role as the leader of a paramilitary group engaged in armed resistance against institutionalized racism.
Co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1966) is an Italian-Algerian war film that provides an emotionally devastating account of the anticolonial struggle of the Algerian people and a brutally candid exposé of the French colonial mindset.
Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
Join a vibrant discussion of the environment as an imaginative force in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. From January 19-21, speakers will explore both regions through donkey trails, locust ecology, pictorial traditions, soil science and mapmaking, deadly environments, climate-related disaster risk policies, material landscapes of Israel and Palestine, the island of Goli Otok’s political prisons, and the intersection of nature and culture in the Carpathian Mountains.
Pitt Law, Center for International Legal Education ("CILE"), and the Department of Political Science
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:
Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions.
What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East--we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice.
As salaamu alaikum!
Please join us on January 28, 2023 for "The Medium is in the Message: The Importance of the Shama'il in Knowing the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), a lecture by Imam Abdul Aziz Suraqah. A book signing will immediately follow the lecture.
NOTE: We encourage participants to wear a mask while at the event. NOTE: We have seating limited to 25 people only. Thank you in advance for your support.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.47 minutes, English language with Arabic subtitles . The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sahara Dirbas and the protagonist Valerie Bisharat.
SYNOPSIS
A documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinians in U.S from Bisharat family, have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948.
