Lehman Center For Human Rights 8th Annual Conference
“Watch your step when you cover dangerous stories. No pictures are more important than your life”
- Bassam Khabieh, Conflict Photographer
- Bassam Khabieh, Conflict Photographer
Through seven years of war, Syrian artists have played a crucial role as witnesses to the devastation of their country, and to the suffering and fortitude of its people. This one-day conference explores Syrian cultural producers’ varied responses to the ongoing conflict. Visual artists, playwrights, musicians, and filmmakers invoke, critique, and give voice to experiences of oppression, trauma, exile, and loss. Wartime works reflect an intensification of the outrage, longing, ambivalence, irony, and contradiction that have long imbued Syrian expressive culture. This conference showcases rarely seen works by Syrian artists, and places their creators in dialogue with a young generation of Syrian academics and activists.
The Organizers
Christa SalamandraInterim Director, Lehman Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies
Professor of Anthropology Lehman College and The Graduate Center City University of New York |
Nour HalabiPhD Candidate (A.B.D.) Annenberg School for Communication
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Marianna Al-TabbaaM.A. Candidate, Political Science, NYU
Policy Research Fellow, Human Rights Watch |
Participants
Liwaa Yazji
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Noor Hamdi
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