A unique exchange between writers from Palestine and India on memory, imagination, writing and more. The colloquium will focus on three broad themes – Memory & Imagination; Counterfacts on the Ground; and “Stuck in Historical Amber?” Organised in collaboration with Women Unlimited

 

 

 

Film The Time That Remains (109 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

 

Director: Elias Suleiman

 

 

 

Recipient of the Jury Grand Prize, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2009; Audience Award & Silver Alhambra, Grenada Film Festival Cine del Sur 2010; ACCA Jury Prize & Award for Best Director, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2009

 

 

 

Elia Suleiman’s memoir of his family under Israeli occupation continues the mood of his earlier Divine Intervention (2002)

 

 

 

At 18:30

 

Memory & Imagination

 

A discussion on writing and resistance; on home and exile; on seeking, finding...

 

With Mourid Barghouti and Sharif Elmusa

 

 

 

Moderated by Ahdaf Soueif & Ritu Menon