Arab Music Concert Series

Led by Hanna Khoury, a resident ensemble will perform classical Arab music repertoire featuring a different guest soloist for each program. Save these dates with guest artists:

 
Youssef Kassab on October 29, 2011

A.J. Racy on November 18 & 20, 2011

Suheir Hammad on December 9, 2011

Kareem Roustom on February 25, 2012

Sonia M'Barek on March 25, 2012


Visit http://albustanseeds.org/music/presents/concert-series/ for info to be announced soon.

First Generation Movie Screening

This film follows the story of four high school students who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education. After the screening, dinner will be served, and there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers. Admission is free. RSVP required at http://ware.house.upenn.edu/screening

Learn more about the documentary at:  http://firstgenerationfilm.com/about.php 

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Admissions, the Greenfield Intercultural Center, and Ware College House

Location: McClelland Hall in Ware College House

Critical Mathematics as Anti-Racist Pedagogy

A discussion led by Dr. Gutstein, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at University of Illinois at Chicago, as a part of the Graduate School of Education's Race in the Academy Series.

Location: International House, South America House (3701 Chestnut St)

Rise of the Urban Metropolis: the City as Nightmare, Color-Blind Ideology and Black Community Development

A discussion led by Dr. Taylor, Professor and Director of Urban Studies at SUNY Buffalo, as a part of the Graduate School of Education's Race in the Academy Series.

Location: International House, South America Room (3701 Chestnut St)

You Don't Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo

You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo is a stunning documentary based on security camera footage from an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts, this documentary delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four-day period. Maintaining a surveillance-camera style, the film analyses the political, legal, and psychological aspects of the interrogation through interviews with Khadr’s lawyers, a psychiatrist, an investigative journalist, former Guantanamo detainees, and a former US interrogator. This unique depiction of Omar Khadr’s interrogation offers an unusual insight into a world where “the truth” itself is often negotiated.

Location: International House (3701 Chestnut)

The Price of Sex

Intimate and revealing, The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by the young women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear, and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey¬–exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives.

Location: International House (3701 Chestnut St)

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates’s own career. Granito is a story of destinies joined together by Guatemala’s past and of how a documentary film from 1982, When the Mountains Tremble, emerges as an active player in the present by becoming forensic evidence in a genocide case against a military dictator. In an incredible twist of fate, Yates was allowed to shoot the only known footage of the army as it carried out the genocide. Twenty-five years later, this footage becomes evidence in an international war crimes case against the very army commander who permitted Yates to film. Irrevocably linked by the events of 1982, each of the film’s characters is integral to the country’s reconstruction of a collective memory, the search for truth, and the pursuit of justice. Through the work of American filmmakers, forensics experts in Guatemala, and lawyers in Spain, the quest for accountability in Guatemala continues—with each individual contributing his or her own “granito”, or tiny grain of sand

Location: International House (3701 Chestnut St)

The Green Wave

By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran. From the widespread hope of political change in Iran through the 2009 elections to the violent suppression of the mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi brings us into the world of Iranian citizens who risked their lives in the hopes of a better future. Interweaving online posts, video footage caught by those present, and extensive interviews, The Green Wave is an artistic portrait of modern political rebellion, an exposé of government-sanctioned violence, and a vision of hope that continued resistance may galvanize a new future not just for Iran but for the region as a whole

Location: International House (3701 Chestnut St)