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[PAST EVENT] Alia Yunis’ The Golden Harvest: Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker

October 18, 2024
12pm - 2pm
Location
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 237
100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Alia Yunis The Golden Harvest (APIA)

Fall 2024 APIA Lecture Series - Homecoming Event

Alia Yunis’ The Golden Harvest: Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker

The Golden Harvest (2019) is a 6,000-year-old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of the Mediterranean, including her own father. It is a complicated romance, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, set in a region that includes some of the poorest and most conflicted areas of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Alia Yunis is a scholar, journalist, author, and filmmaker. Following her documentary The Golden Harvest, she is now working on a film about the date palm. Dr. Yunis co-edited Re-Orienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media: Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean Meet (2024). Her novel, The Night Counter (2010), has been critically acclaimed by the Washington Post and other publications. She co-founded the Zayed University Middle East Film Festival (ZUMEFF), now the longest-running film festival in the Gulf.


Sponsored by: The Program in APIA Studies. Thanks to the Roy R. Charles Center for their support of this event.

Contact

Please contact Dr. R. Benedito Ferrão with any questions: [[w|rbferrao]]