In March of 2017, IETM—international network for contemporary performing arts, Brussels—published “Contemporary Performing Arts in Lebanon: an overview” by Emmanuel Haddad, a sweeping look at the art making, and the politics of art making, in Lebanon. Haddad notes, “For the Lebanese establishment, culture, as the poet Nazem al-Sayed wrote in 2008, is just a more… Read more »
Posts By: joshmcilvain
Incomplete Without You: the works of ear-whispered
Tania El Khoury’s work is incomplete without you. Unlike more conventional theatre and performance, her live art work* comes alive through audience interaction. In Stories of Refuge, audience members recline on bunk beds, evoking an image of prisons and refugee camps; in Gardens Speak, they listen to accounts of the lives and the last moments of Syrian martyrs, becoming recumbent inhabitants of a graveyard themselves.
Storytelling Workshop with Bryn Mawr College Archivist and Discussion of Camp Pause
Free
When
Friday, September 21, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Student Reflections on ear-whispered
Free
When
Friday, September 28, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Conversation with Poet Tarfia Faizullah
Free
When
Friday, October 5, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
“Toppling” Saddam Hussein in London: Media, Meaning, and the Construction of an Iraqi Diasporic Community
Free
When
Friday, October 26, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Performed Stories by Nimisha Ladva
Free
When
Friday, November 2, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Storytelling as Power, Resistance, Critique: An Undergraduate and Graduate Symposium at Bryn Mawr College
Free
When
Friday, November 9, 11am–2pm (Keynote lecture at 12pm)
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
The Remembered Dead: Burial Practices in the Ancient Near East
Free
When
Friday, November 16, 12pm–1pm
Where
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Clare Davies on Contemporary Art of the Middle East
Free
When
Tuesday, November 27, 6pm–7:30pm
Where
Old College Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College, 1st Floor, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
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