Major

Thu, Sep 18, 2008
7:30 PM

Classroom (directions)

Screening: Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out, followed by Q&A with director Joshua van Praag and Museum as Hub Fellow Ayman Ramadan

Part of Exhibition Related, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out is a short documentary film that follows the lives of five Iraqi families who are now living in exile in Cairo. They recall the disturbing events that forced them to flee their homes and discuss the challenges they are now facing in Egypt as they try to live as refugees. While all of the Iraqis featured in this film have been persecuted for different reasons, once in Egypt they all find themselves subjected to similar problems as they struggle to survive. For now, their lives are in limbo as they wait for the help they so desperately need.

See iraqisinegypt.org for more information.

This program is part of “Museum as Hub: Antikhana,” a project organized by the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, on view in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub space through September 21, 2008.

Credits
Color / 12 mins / US / EGYPT
Photographed, Produced & Directed by Joshua van Praag
Co-Produced by Marwan Muafac Ali
Edited by Deborah Magocsi
Assistant Editor, Fatima Faraidoun
Sound by John Moros

A Real Deal Films Production in Association with SEMAT Films.

Photo credit: Joshua van Praag

Sponsors TOP

The Townhouse Gallery’s participation in the Museum as Hub program is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.