3 Oct 2019 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
- Description
Description
This film screening is free and open to all. Part of the CRASSH-Mellon research project: ‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’.
A young teacher becomes possessed by his dead grandfather, who forces him to choose between his Iraqi Arabic Jewish family identity and his life as an Israeli who ignores his Arab past.
Followed by a Q&A with Almog Behar, author of the short story and film ‘Ana min al Yahud’.
‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’ is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to support a multi-disciplinary examination of the interplay between religion, secularism, and the role of the university, reference #41600622.