01/29/2024
By Nephtaly Pierre-Louis
Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies | 2023 – 2024 Speaker Series
Degrees of Incarceration – Film Screening & Conversation with Amahl Bishara
Free and open to the public Please respond to attend with this form.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 3-5 p.m.
Lowell TeleMedia Center
Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center
246 Market Street, Lowell, MA 01852
Parking is available in the HCID Parking Facility or the Leo A.Roy Parking Garage nearby.
How do Palestinian refugees manage the heavy toll political prison takes on young and old under Israeli occupation? Through observational footage and interviews filmed over 6 years in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, Degrees of Incarceration (co-produced by Nidal Al-Azraq) introduces audiences to a close network of family and friends, revealing that prison does not only affect those behind bars. Please join us for a film screening followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, Prof. Amahl Bishara.
Amahl Bishara, Ph.D., is associate professor of the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank. She also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank. Her first book, "Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics" (Stanford University Press 2013), is an ethnography of the production of U.S. news during the second Palestinian Intifada. She is the president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.
For more information, please contact Urmitapa Dutta by email: Urmitapa_Dutta@uml.edu or read more about the event in the registration form.
This event is sponsored by Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell and Lowell TeleMedia Center.