Join us for a pre-recorded virtual discussion with Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me, moderated by scholar and Mizna film screening committee member Adey Almohsen.
Dina Amer is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She helped produce the Oscar nominated and Emmy award-winning documentary The Square, where the Egyptian Revolution was chronicled from the frontlines. Growing up between the US and Egypt, her work has focused on sharing nuanced, human stories with a global audience. Previous to her film work, Dina was a celebrated journalist. She was an on-air correspondent for VICE, including The Black Market Series, where she uncovered the human trafficking of Syrian refugees and explored the underground economy of illegal Egypt-Gaza tunnels. Her written work has been published in The New York Times, CNN and the Huffington Post. You Resemble Me is her directorial debut.
Adey Almohsen is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Grinnell College, Iowa. He teaches the history of the modern Middle East and North Africa and he is currently working on a book set to explore Palestinian intellectual history (and its Arab discontents) during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s across Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Khartoum, and beyond.
Join us for a pre-recorded virtual discussion with Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me, moderated by scholar and Mizna film screening committee member Adey Almohsen.
Dina Amer is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She helped produce the Oscar nominated and Emmy award-winning documentary The Square, where the Egyptian Revolution was chronicled from the frontlines. Growing up between the US and Egypt, her work has focused on sharing nuanced, human stories with a global audience. Previous to her film work, Dina was a celebrated journalist. She was an on-air correspondent for VICE, including The Black Market Series, where she uncovered the human trafficking of Syrian refugees and explored the underground economy of illegal Egypt-Gaza tunnels. Her written work has been published in The New York Times, CNN and the Huffington Post. You Resemble Me is her directorial debut.
Adey Almohsen is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Grinnell College, Iowa. He teaches the history of the modern Middle East and North Africa and he is currently working on a book set to explore Palestinian intellectual history (and its Arab discontents) during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s across Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Khartoum, and beyond.