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February 9, 2021
Priscilla Page
The University of Michigan department of theater and drama, and departmental student-faculty culturally conscious casting committee will host a roundtable discussion on culturally conscious casting and theater, with a panel of experts in the field on Friday, Feb. 12, at noon.
The roundtable is inspired by the book “Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative.”
Panelists include:
Daniel Banks, co-editor of “Casting a Movement” and co-director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to using the arts as a catalyst for dialogue and healing.
Justin Emeka, director and associate professor of theater and Africana Studies at Oberlin College, and contributor to Casting a Movement.
February 12, 2021
Image: Kevork Mourad. By kind permission from the artist.
One of the most significant and exciting developments of 2019 and 2020 in the American theatre has been the formation of the Middle Eastern and North African Theatre Makers Alliance (MENATMA). Years of creating, organizing, theorizing, and advocating have culminated in an American Middle Eastern and North African theatre movement that amplifies MENA voices and strengthens BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) theatre makers.
It is a movement to which we ascribe enormous ambition and hope; we will be politically and aesthetically progressive, elevate historical consciousness, and fight for justice long denied. We will do so as storytellers who toil in the medium of theatre, in all its live and digital forms. We will do so as the progeny of cultures and communities about which we deeply care. We will do so as activists who confront racism, marginalization, and erasure.
Written by Jamil Khoury and Dr. Manal Hamzeh
Translated from English to Arabic by Dr. Manal Hamzeh
Original English-Language Version Directed by Liz Wuerffel
Animated by Anna Hayden-Roy
Chicago, IL – (Arab Newswire) Silk Road Rising (Co-Executive Artistic Directors Malik Gillani and Jamil Khoury) is proud to announce that the original English-language version of their animated short film “
The Four Hijabs” was dubbed into Arabic in Amman, Jordan and Damascus, Syria. The company has also released two companion video interviews, one in English and one in Arabic, featuring the film’s co-writer Dr. Manal Hamzeh.
Synopsis of
Released in 2016,
The Four Hijabs (12min 6sec) is an animated short film that explores the multiple meanings of four hijabs mentioned in 16 Qur’anic verses and interprets them through Arab-Muslim feminist lenses: