Posted on October 16, 2018
Drawing upon the insights of numerous international scholars-and illustrating crucial passages with stunning animation sequences-this program guides viewers through the Inferno of Dante’s Divine Comedy. With detailed analysis of Read More
Posted on October 12, 2018
In its citation for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, Read More
Posted on October 12, 2018
Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues–from honey-vanilla to brown-sugar chocolate–speak candidly about the Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon’s theories of Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
Yamina Benguigui, a woman filmmaker of Algerian descent, described this documentary film project as ‘the narrative of my journey at the heart of the Maghrebi immigration in France. The Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
This video profiles how ancient Chinese technologists used gunpowder, porcelain, the cast iron plow, kites, the magnetic compass, moveable type, the blast furnace, the multistage rocket and more. Host Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
For a month, a group of women, from 5 cities in Iraq, live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in Damascus. Everyday they are out on the Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
In the 2003 remains of a scarred Baghdad, confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric asylum. It is in this context that the past and Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
Palestinians Said and Khaled, now in young adulthood, have been lifelong friends living in Nablus in the West Bank. They have both had what they consider a difficult life, Read More
