April 2023
Nadia Shihab
Jaddoland & Talkback with filmmaker Nadia Shihab Online Screening: April 27-30 …
Michael Hambouz
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Michael Hambouz as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Solo/two-person exhibitions include Wassaic Project (NY), Future Fairs (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), chashama (NYC), Kayrock (NYC),…
Layla Zubi
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Layla Zubi as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Layla Zubi (b. 1991, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA) (she/her/they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist from the Saint Louis area and Southern Illinois region. She received her MFA from Cornell University (2022) and a BA in studio art with an…
February 2023
Norah Shapiro
Arab Film Series online The Arab Film Series online is a monthly program of films and discussions with artists and filmmakers from the SWANA region and its diasporas, presented by ArteEast in partnership with the Arab American National Museum and Arab Film and Media Institute.
, 2018
, 89 min
Synopsis: Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. If successful, she will become the first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States. Similar to the classic tale of David and Goliath, Omar, who is up against a 43-year…
February 2022
Assia Djebar
South West Asia and North Africa, there are historical records of women’s cinema since the 1920s. However, a lack of state funding for archival projects, as well as factors such as conflict and war, mean that we often watch these films through reading about them. The films themselves are inaccessible, or more often damaged or…
September 2021
Mohamed Soueid, Walid Raad, Jayce Salloum
RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIES examines the role of the documentary in representing the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) through the experimental works of three important Lebanese post-war artists/filmmakers: Walid Raad, Jayce Salloum, and Mohamad Soueid. The Lebanese Civil War officially ended after the 1989 Taif Accord, granting amnesty to those who committed war crimes, allowing these same figures to…
Walid Raad
, 2001
, 16 min
Synopsis:Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) is an experimental documentary about “The Western Hostage Crisis.” The crisis refers to the abduction and detention of Westerners like Terry Anderson, and Terry Waite in Lebanon in the 80s and early 90s by “Islamic militants.” This episode directly and indirectly consumed Lebanese, U.S., French, and British political and public…
Jayce Salloum
, 49 min
Synopsis: This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and experiences while working in Lebanon, focusing on the undertaking of this representational process as a Lebanese and a westernized, foreign-born…
