Nine films from Safaa Sathy will be available to stream for free from September 16th through October 31st
Safaa Fathy is an Egyptian/French poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist. Born in Egypt, she moved to France in 1981 and obtained her PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1993. She was Program Director at the International College of Philosophy from 2010-2016. Fathy is the author of the plays Aquarius, in Sillas en la frontera, and Ordalie/Terreur (with an introduction by Jacques Derrida), and co-author with Jacques Derrida of Tourner les mots: au bord d’un film. Her books of poetry include Revolution Goes Through Walls (SplitLevel) and A Name to the Sea (Dar Al Nahda). Her films include Mohammad Saved from the Waters, Derrida’s Elsewhere and a film poem Nom à la mer. Her most recent essays are Au nom de la Murale (Europe N. 1053-1053) and De mur en mur (rue Descartes N.92). Other than Egypt and France, she has lived and worked in Germany, Mexico, and the United States.
These films are presented alongside three virtual live streamed events with Safaa Fathy in conversation with esteemed artists, thinkers and educators on a biweekly basis.
On Tuesday, September 22nd at 6pm EDT, the Maysles Documentary Center will host a discussion between Kay Dickinson & Safaa Fathy focused on filmmaking.
Kay Dickinson is a professor of cinema at Concordia University in Montreal. Her most recent publications include Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (2016) and Arab Film and Video Manifestos (2018). Her research is dedicated to thinking through how various media function amid and in resistance to the machinations of transnational global capital.
On Sunday, October 4th at 3pm EDT, Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice will host a discussion between Mona Kareem and Safaa Fathy with an emphasis on poetry.
Mona Kareem, a poet, translator and currently Princeton University’s Translator in Residence, will be talking to Safaa Fathy about the relationship between poetry and film in Hidden Valley and a few other shorts in the program.
On Sunday, October 25th at 3pm EDT, ArtEast will host a discussion between Safaa Fathy & a guest to be announced shortly.
On Sunday, October 25th at 3pm EDT ArtEaste will host a discussion between Safaa Fathy & Sherine Hafez
.Sherine Hafez is the chair and professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is co-editor of Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and is the author of An Islam of Her Own and Women of Miden.
