Coming activities
Al nakba (the catastrophe) … may - 1948
What happened to the Palestinians under Israeli occupation, israelisation politics, exile and segregation?
Does Fairuz still illuminate their morning cup of coffee?
Where are they today in the violent tribulation that the Arabic world is experiencing?
Elia Suleiman
an authentic Palestinian cinematographer, uses the large screen language to presents clear answers in a biographical way at once simple and complex, rich in color humor and feelings
To date, Elia Suleiman competed in major international cinematographic contest due to three of his feature films:
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Divine Intervention
The Time That Remains
Gilgamesh Society is very pleased to invite you to the screening of Elias most important works, namely
Divine Intervention" and "The Time That Remains
Jessica Adam
will present these movies and host the discussion that will follow
When:
Divine Intervention on May 26th at 7 pm
The Time That Remains on June 2nd at 7 pm
Where: Both screenings will take place at Centre des loisirs de l'arrondissement de Saint Laurent
1375, Rue Grenet. H4L 5K3. Room 204
Entry price is 2 $ (to cover the fees of the room)
Today, more than a year after the beginning of the Arab spring, some issues need to be talked critically, for instance freedom, democracy and secularism in the Arab world.
In Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, islamist parties came to power even if they entered the revolutions very tardily. Political reforms are needed today to build the democratic regimes we want. Also, religious reforms seem inescapable to allow Islam to be a religion with future, not only a past.
Put aside the ambiguity of both democracy democratic and Islamic reforms: the Arabic thinker George Tarabishi responds to the obscurity relating to democracy, secularism and religious reforms based on these sources
Heresy
Heresy II
The miracle or the sleep of reason in Islam
From Islam of the Koran to the Islam of the Hadeeth
According to George Tarabishi, he belongs to a generation that experienced in 50 years what the previous one experiences in 100 or 200 years. He witnessed the ascent and fall of Nazism, Communism, student revolts and the revolution of the European mind starting with existentialism and the school of Frankfort and ending with structuralism and the postmodernist school.
At this time, the world experienced serious troubles with the SWW, the cold war, Nationalism movements in the developing world and globalization.
Gilgamesh Society is extremely pleased to invite you to the conference entitled
Democracy, secularism and religious reforms in the mind of
George Tarabishi
Presented by
Dr. Hassan jamali