Maktaba Moment: Ariella Aisha Azoulay
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A private community gathering and conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay was moderated by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum this past March at Maktaba.
A private community gathering and conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay was moderated by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum this past March at Maktaba. The event was in celebration of two new books by Azoulay; Golden Threads, a children’s book, and The Jewellers of the Ummah - A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World, a cross-generational body of work that builds on Muslim and Jewish collaboration and community as potential history.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a celebrated and pioneering author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and an independent curator of Archives and Exhibitions.
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. Her research explores visual politics in Palestine and focuses on alternative imaginations, people's place-making and dwelling practices in contexts of settler-colonialism. Currently, she is working on her ethnographic project that examines the politics of visual arts and artists role in expanding Palestinians' imagination.
