A Dialogue About Arab Cities Through Literature, Architecture, and Urbanism
Organized by ACA and BeK
Wednesday 31 August 2016, 18:30
The Arab Center for Architecture (ACA) and the International Writers’ House in Beirut (Beyt el Kottab) invite the architect Jad Tabet and the novelist Elias Khoury to discuss Beirut as a war-torn city.
In partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
Thursday 11 August 2016, 19:00 to 20:00
When Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Naous learns of her father's financial difficulties, she returns to her homeland to document this period in her family's life.
Anything But Being (Buried) Underground: The Normandy We Want
With The Society of False Witnesses
Sunday 31 July 2016, 17:00 to 19:00
The Society of False Witnesses invites witnesses from the fields of life, construction, geotechnical engineering, hydrology, linguistics, and spatial theory to present a tour of the Normandy landfill.
Led by political historian Nadia Bou Ali, this reading group will look at the figure of Mahdi Amel and the "colonial mode of production”: structure, temporality, and class struggle.
Screening of A Fire (1961,dir. Ebrahim Golestan) and Unearthing Disaster I (2013, dir. Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos), with an introduction by Angela Anderson, Angela Melitopoulos, and Ashkan Sepahvand.
A presentation and discussion of the publication Elements for a World: WATER, followed by a panel discussion with architect Adib Dada, water specialist Nadim Farajalla, Beirut Syndrome (Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah Shmaitilly), and artist Jessika Khazrik.
In this talk, art historian Pelin Tan will present and discuss camps as forms of decay, as border infrastructure, and as commoning practices in the borderlines of today’s war-driven world.
A launch of the publication Elements for a World: STONE, followed by a panel discussion with architect Hadi Choueiri, Fadi Mansour, artist Monira Al Qadiri, artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and designer Namik Mačkić.
Readings of science fiction and eco-feminist novels in The Reading Room, a project by Marwa Arsanios in collaboration with Samer Frangie, as part of the exhibition Let's Talk About the Weather.
