Join our screening series next Wednesday April 3rd at 7pm for Eyal Sivan’s Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1991, 97 min) and Noémie Hakim-Serfaty’s short film אחותי - My Sister (2019, 5 min).

The screening will be followed by a discussion around Ella Shohat's text "The Invention of the Mizrahim" (1999), talking about her scholarship on theatres of memory, the Arab-Jew, and Israeli popular culture. The .pdf of the reading is linked below.

“Eyal Sivan's award-winning documentary IZKOR - SLAVES OF MEMORY is about the orchestration of memory. The film shows how school children of all ages in Israel are taught to pay tribute to their nation's past. It keenly observes how some memories are even physically conditioned into the future generations”

“Smadar Lavie is A Mizrahi scholar and activist, a Jewish woman of Yemeni descent who has been engaging in Palestine solidarity work since she is a teenager. She is one of the founders of Ahoti (My sister), Israel's first Mizrahi feminist organization. In weaving together stories of Mizrahi Feminists, I intend to shed light on the intersection of identities that we exist in. As Jewish women from the Middle East and North Africa, we wrestle with the white supremacy traversing the Jewish world. We live at the intersection of patriarchy and Israel's pervasive anti-Arab racism. Through these poignant stories, these women unveil a complexity that deserves to be held in order to draw dissident lines of solidarity.”