Screening of 'Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah'

In this award winning documentary, French film maker Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Judeo-Berber culture of Tinghir, a village high in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and follows the trail of the village’s once substantial Jewish population to its émigrés and descendants in Israel. Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah was awarded ‘Best Film’ at the Rabat International Film Festival for Human Rights, 2012; ‘Best First Film’ at the Tangier National Film Festival, 2013; and ‘Best Documentary’ at the World Jewish Film Festival, 2012. An abridged 60 minute version of the film will be shown at the round-table.

The film screening will be followed by a round-table discussion with an international panel of expert academics on some of the issues the documentary raises including displacement, migration, belonging and Jewish-Muslim relations in the past and present.

Time

• 6.00-7.00pm film screening
• 7.00-8.00pm round-table discussion

Speakers

• Kamal Hachkar, independent film director (introduction and over view of themes)
• Dr Gil Anidjar; professor at Columbia University (US), department of religion and middle east studies (author of "The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy")
• Dr Moshe  Behar, pears senior lecturer in Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies. He also co-edited Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought, Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture,  1893–1958.
• Dr Guila-Clara Kessous,Lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris in "Theatre and Human Rights" UNESCO Artist for Peace

http://www.arbrealettres.com/detaillivre.php?gencod=9782130590163

Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in collaboration with the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies (SOAS), University of London.

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