virtual events on demand

With Wafa Ghnaim and Rami Kashou

Festival’s engaging panel on Tatreez. What Stories come alive through Tatreez and textile? How has Tatreez play a role in sharing Palestinian culture across villages, families, and now transcending borders? Click to listen to the lively discussion.

with Fargo Tbakhi, Adam Kassim, and Mona Kasra

Q&A with members of cast and crew of Keffiyeh Made in China by Mosaic Theater Company

with M. Asli Dukan, Dr. Grace Dillon, Basma Ghalayini, and Saleem Haddad

This panel explores speculative fiction and Afro, Indigenous, and Palestinian futurisms in both film and literature. Centering Afrofuturism as the wellspring from which Indigenous and Palestinian futurisms have been able to grow, we will look at how artists have imagined alternate futures for our peoples across artistic mediums. Cosponsored by the Arab Studies Institute.

Click this link for the full transcript: dcpfaf.org/radical-imagining-transcript

feat. ISABELLA HAMMAD (AUTHOR) and MARYA HANNUN (dcpfaf)

A book talk and Q&A session with Isabella Hammad, award-winning author of The Parisian. Isabella Hammad was born in London and lives between London and New York. Her first novel The Parisian was published in 2019, and it follows a young Palestinian man from Nablus who falls in love with France during the end of the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate periods. The novel won a 2019 Palestine Book Award, the 2020 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors in the UK. In 2019 She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. She is currently at work on a new novel set in London and Palestine.

Click this link for the full transcript: https://www.dcpfaf.org/isabellahammad

feat. rami younis (palestine music expo co-founder) and noura erakat (dcpfaf co-founder)

In this panel, hear from Rami Younis, a filmmaker, journalist, and co-founder of the Palestine Music Expo (PMX), the largest showcase of Palestinian musical talents, about the effort to introduce Palestinian musical artists to the world and build a robust Palestinian music industry. Rami Younis and DCPFAF co-founder Noura Erakat will discuss the history of these efforts, the challenges amidst violent legal and political fragmentations, and PMX's potential for helping to build an emancipatory future. Event cosponsored by PMX and the Arab Studies Institute. Click this link for the full transcript: https://www.dcpfaf.org/musiccuration

Dj sama’ abdulhadi

Click here to watch a Q&A with DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi.

DJ SAROUNA

Click here to watch a Q&A with Sarouna.