Gaza on Screen
Join CCAS, DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, the Laboratory for Global Politics and Performance, and the Culture and Politics Program at Georgetown University for a program of short films on Gaza.
This event features three Palestinian films that provide history and urgent context to current events amid the ongoing violence in Gaza: To My Father (Abdelsalam Shehadeh), Daggit Gaza (Hadeel Assali and Iman Saqr) and Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza (Mustafa Abu Ali).
Following the screenings, Nadia Yaqub, editor of the new book anthology, Gaza on Screen, and Joan Mandell, documentary filmmaker, “Gaza Ghetto”, will join in conversation.
Nadia Yaqub
Nadia Yaqub’s research has treated Arab cultural texts ranging from medieval literature and contemporary oral poetry to modern prose fiction and visual culture. Her recent publications include Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press 2017), a volume of essays co-edited with Rula Quawas, Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), a monograph about Palestinian cinema of the long 1970s, and Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023), an edited volume about film and media from and about the Gaza Strip.
Joan Mandell
Joan Mandell is a documentary filmmaker and oral historian. Co-director of the feature-length documentary, Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family 1948-84. A founding editor of Al Fajr, a Palestinian English-language newsweekly, and instructor at Birzeit University in the occupied Palestinian territories. She served for two decades on the editorial board of Middle East Report, and directed oral history and documentary projects at the Arab American National Museum. Now teaching at Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.