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Syrian Perspectives Film Screening: Dalya’s Other Country
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, PrincetonDisplaced by the Syrian conflict, teenage Dalya goes to a Catholic high school while her mother, Rudayana, enrolls in college as they both walk the line between their Muslim values and the new world in which they find themselves. Running time: 1 hour. Part of the Princeton Public Library's Syrian Perspectives Series. Co-sponsored by the […]
Syrian Perspectives Film Screening: The War Show
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, PrincetonFilmmaker and radio host Obaidah Zytoon captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends and journalists in The War Show. Beginning with peaceful Arab Spring protests in 2011, the film provides a four-year, ground-level look at how the country spiraled into bloody civil war. Running time: 1 hour, […]
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
Labyrinth Books Princeton Labyrinth Books Princeton, PrincetonElaine Sciolino, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief at The New York Times and current visiting professor in the Humanities Council's Ferris Seminars in Journalism, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. Please join us for a celebration of a […]