Film Screening: "The Night Won’t End"

The broadcast follows three families who have witnessed firsthand how there is nowhere safe in Gaza.” https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-night-wont-end/

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Chris Stone (Hunter College) and Poet and Activist Dania Rajendra, moderated by Jean Halley, Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

Chris Stone has been teaching Arabic language and literature at Hunter College since 2005 and has lived extensively in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. He is part of a collective of faculty and students at Hunter College who regularly screen films from and about Palestine. He is also a member of CUNY Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. https://hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/classical-and-oriental-studies/arabic-studies/faculty/profile/christopher-stone/

Dania Rajendra was the founding director of the Athena coalition and has served on the boards of the International Labor Communications Association, Political Research Associates, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. She was also a longtime member of the advisory board of In These Times. She now sits on the international advisory board of the Diaspora Alliance. https://daniarajendra.com/

Register for this Zoom event.

Can’t attend the event? You can watch the documentary for free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECFpW5zoFXA

For more information, please contact Jean.Halley@csi.cuny.edu