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7:00pm
Naji Al-Ali: An Artist with Vision  (Movie / Film)

Presented by Sadam Issa, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages

Thursday February 20, 2014, 7pm

Main Library North Conference Room, W449
Co-sponsored by the MSU Comics Forum and MSU Muslim Studies Program


"The film takes us on a chronological tour of the [Palestinian] artist's life, from his childhood in the [refugee] camps, through his days as a student. It follows him as he emerges as an activist, journalist and artist, through the various wars that shaped his work and his fate, and finally into his exile in London, where he was brutally gunned down by an unknown assailant."

"...This documentary does an outstanding job of introducing not only the personality of al-Ali, but also the most important events shaping his work. It also includes an excellent cross-section of the thousands of political drawings al-Ali published in his lifetime."
Jensen, Kim. "Witness to Brutality: Film Documents Life and Death of Naji al-Ali." Rev. of Naji-Al Ali: An Artist with Vision. Al Jadid 6:32 (2000).

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Location: Main Library, North Conference Room [map]
Price: free
Sponsor: Administration
Contact: Holly Flynn
email pic flynnhol@msu.edu
phone pic 517-884-0901