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Film Workshop Series: Politics and Poetics: Arab Art & Culture as a Form of Resistance


By Zein El Amine

11/09/2011 02:30 pm

Location: George Mason University Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room, III.


 

The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program, Global Islamic studies and Middle East Etc. Film Club present a Film Workshop Series: Politics and Poetics: Arab Art & Culture as Form of Resistance by Zein El-Amine on  November 9, 2011, at 7:30 PM, at George Mason University, Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room, III. 

 

Zein El-Amine has a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and teaches Global Literature and Social Change at the University of Maryland. Zein leads annual literary study abroad trips to Egypt and Ireland. He is also one of the founding members of the award-winning trade magazine Left Turn, published in New York. He is a published poet and writer and was one of the translators for the Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary Sling Shot Hip Hop.