Ahd kamel biography of martin luther king

  • The playwright of a play about Martin Luther King brings his talent and the talent of African-American gospel singers to Palestine.
  • It follows an African American gospel group led by Stanford professor and King scholar Clayborne Carson who travel to Palestine in March 2011 to.
  • She repeated what I had heard from Kamel: “The Palestinians do not have a long history of theater, it is only thirty years old or so, and it's.

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    Reflections by Ré Phillips

    My first journey to the Holy Land was not your average journey to Mecca, but instead a teaterpjäs come to life, a (re)living of the African American freedom struggle on Palestinian stages, and a toiling with methodologies for peace, justice, and nonviolence in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In March of 2011, against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, including the wave of Gaddafian brutal retaliation against the stirring of the Libyan people and Egyptian liberation from the Mubarak regime, I was traveling with Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Research Institute to Israel and Palestine with a job to do--a uppdrag to accomplish: to transmit Dr. Martin Luther King’s message of peace and nonviolence through a multilingual, multimedia teatralisk production and to disseminate these ideas in a land that desperately needed them.

    Such a mission seemed laughable after I had been there on the ground long enough to witness t

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    Film Review — ‘Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine’

    “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred.” -Bernice Johnson Reagon

    “If you don’t have anything worth dying for, find something.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

    Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine is an illuminating and moving documentary by award-winning producer Connie Fields (Have You Heard from Johannesburg, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter). The film follows an African-American choir on their journey in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories as they sing in a play that brings Martin Luther KingJr. and the civil rights struggle to a Palestinian audience. Beyond its excellent production quality, Al Helm—Arabic for “the dream”— has great crossover potential because it shows several (largely) apolitical, Black Americans meeting a people still locked in the nightmare of oppression. Their experiences at first seem just confusing to them, then poli

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    Arab Film Series: Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine + talkback

    7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020
    Aliya Hassan Auditorium @ AANM
    AANM Members FREE 
    General Public $5 
    PURCHASE TICKETS

    Join us for our first film screening of 2020! The documentary film Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine follows an African American gospel choir that provides the chorus for a Palestinian play on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., exploring parallels between civil rights in the U.S. and liberation struggles in Palestine.

    The screening will be followed by a talkback with the Wright Museum’s Charles Ferrell and AANM director Diana Abouali. 

    Presented in partnership with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

    Watch the trailer

    Dir. Connie Field, Kamel El Basha, Mik Kuhlman 

    2013/Palestine, United States/93 minutes 

    English and Arabic with English Subtitles