The Film & Visual Studies Screen Studies Workshop presents

Rasha Salti
Researcher, writer, curator of art and film

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **CANCELLED**  

... Read more about **CANCELLED** The Secret Lives of Images

The CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (Morocco, 1988)
(A Door to the Sky; Une porte sur le ciel) written and directed by Farida Benlyazid

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **POSTPONED**  

Free admission, open to the public.... Read more about **POSTPONED** Film screening: "Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (A Door to the Sky)" (Morocco, 1988)

CMES Director's Series presents a screening of

Heads and Tails (2019)
A documentary on traveling hair

A film by Aylin Kuryel and Firat Yücel... Read more about Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

MEdiNA GSD is pleased to present

Rosana Elkhatib
Co-Founder of f-architecture; designer, curator, researcher and writer... Read more about On Feminist Labors

CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Hamid Rahmanian 
Designer and Director

Join CMES for a screening of Hamid Rahmanian's film version of Feathers of Fire, a spectacular shadow puppet play based on the Persian epic, Shahnameh.

Watch the trailer: 
https://bit.ly/2PZrLKy.

Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Seating is first come, first served.... Read more about Meet the Director: Hamid Rahmanian and a Film Screening of "Feathers of Fire"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ridha Moumni
Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)... Read more about (Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

The Committee on Medieval Studies presents

Samuel England
Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House

The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund is pleased to present a talk and Karagöz puppet show featuring

Sona Tatoyan, stage & film actress, writer, and activist, and Ayhan Hülagü, journalist, actor, artist, and puppet master.

CMES welcomes Syrian-Armenian-American actress Sona Tatoyan as she presents her Armenian grandfather’s hand-made Karagöz shadow puppets,... Read more about Trauma, Magic, Love: Being In Aleppo with Karagöz Puppets, My Ancestors and the Spirit of Osman Kavala

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the film

Haytarma (2013)... Read more about Film screening: Haytarma (2013)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a screening and discussion with filmmaker

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; first prize winner at 2013 Cannes Film Festival

A screening of two short films, "When the Kid Was a Kid" and "Needle", followed by a Q&A with the director... Read more about Film Screening & Discussion with Director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

SoArt (Social Art) is an organization that brings together Young Iranian artists, and the way they share their vision of social change through art. Works from 50 Iranian artists will be on display May 3-August 27 in the CGIS South Concourse....