Symposium on THE ISTER at Duke
The internationally acclaimed and award-winning film
THE ISTER will be shown on Thursday, September 27, in the auditorium of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. A
symposium devoted to the film will be held on Friday, September 28, at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies.
Daniel Ross, who, along with his colleague David Barison, made
THE ISTER, will be present for the screening of the film and will be the featured speaker at the symposium. Both events are free and open to the public. Members of the community are invited to view this remarkable film and to take part in the discussion of it.
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Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz Dies
We were saddened last week by the news that the great writer Naguib Mahfouz passed away at the age of 94. The first and only Arab winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he, according to the Business Standard, would have found much to satirise at his own funeral. Mahfouz was given full state honours—his coffin was draped in a flag, borne in a horse-drawn carriage past a military guard of honour while the President and Prime Minister paid their last respects. But the ordinary people whose lives Mahfouz had documented in works like The Cairo Trilogy were excluded from the funeral for reasons of security. The report quoted Amal, one of Mahfouz’s many loyal readers: “He doesn’t want a state funeral… Did he write for the flag? Did he write for the horses? He wrote for the poor. We should walk in his funeral.”
In
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ: THE PASSAGE OF THE CENTURY Mahfouz granted rare access to make this revealing documentary with and about him. At the age of 88, half-blind, hard of hearing, and crippled by a recent assassination attempt, Mahfouz weaves the threads of his life together with his view of society, his childhood, his discovery of literature (Egyptian and Western), the city of Cairo (which he left only three times in his life), Islamic fundamentalism, the evolution of Egypt, the role of women, and the future of civilization.
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