This inaugural panel offers an introduction to Abounaddara and their work. Film is a natural medium to depict a portrait - whether of a place, a person, a historic moment. Many of Abounddara's films present intimate portraits of individual Syrian's from all sides of the conflict telling their stories on film. Deeply rooted in histories of art and filmmaking alike, this method of portraiture complicates our fragmented understanding of what is happening in Syria.
Abounaddara Films
In the name of the father
The Unknown Soldier (part 3)
Aïcha
Panelists
Charif Kiwan, member and spokesperson, Abounaddara
Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and the Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago
Edward Ziter, Associate Professor of Drama, New York University
Peter Lucas, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program of International Affairs, The New School, moderator