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Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
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Mohammed El Amin- Music Concert
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Film Screening + Talk Idrissou Mora- Kpai
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Film Screening + Talk I'm not your Negro
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ETHIOPIA: MODERN NATION – ANCIENT ROOTS
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Film Screening + Talk Jihan El-Tahri
The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE), in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE) and the Royal College of Art (London, UK) are organizing a screening program focusing on three films by the acclaimed Egyptian filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri. The screenings will conclude with a webinar featuring the filmmaker...
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Film Screening + Talk Manthia Diawara
The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE), in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE) and the Royal College of Art (London, UK) are organizing a screening program focusing on three films by the acclaimed Malian-American professor and filmmaker Manthia Diawara. The screenings will conclude with a webinar featuring the filmmaker...
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Film Screening + Talk
The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE), in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE) and the Royal College of Art (London, UK) are organizing a screening program focusing on three films by the acclaimed Ghanaian-British filmmaker John Akomfrah. The screenings will conclude with a webinar featuring the filmmaker...
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AFRICA AND THE CHALLENGE OF COVID 19 - WEST AFRICA
The Africa Institute, Sharjah, is organized a series of webinars to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Africa and the steps African nations are taking to tackle the spread of the pandemic.
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Artist Talk
Live webinar featuring Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh @aidamuluneh in conversation with curator Salah M Hassan to discuss her work and her engagement with Addis Foto Fest @addisfotofest .
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AFRICA AND THE CHALLANGE OF COVID 19 - East Africa
Live webinar featuring Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh @aidamuluneh in conversation with curator Salah M Hassan to discuss her work and her engagement with Addis Foto Fest @addisfotofest .
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Aïda Muluneh’s
Homebound: A Journey in
Photography
This exhibition, is a collaboration between The Africa Institute, Sharjah Art Foundation and the Sharjah Museum Authority. It was originally set to open on March 23, 2020, but waspostponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,The exhibition is conceived in two parts...
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Alexandria..Why? (Iskindereya..Leh?)
Alexandria..Why? marked a radical, newly introspective turn in Chahine’s active career, a sharp departure from his Fifties musicals and melodramas and his later epics and political films. The first of a semi-autobiographical tetralogy, entitled...
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An Egyptian Story
The sequel to the autobiographically inspired Alexandria, Why? , An Egyptian Story covers the beginning of Chahine’s career up to his open-heart surgery in 1973. Chahine plays his alter ego Yehia, who gains international fame in Europe only...
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Alexandria Again And Forever (Iskendereya Kaman We Kaman)
The third installment in Chahine’s quartet of autobiographical films finds the director’s work stalled by a strike. During the interruption in filming, Chahine reminisces about a past relationship with one of his actors while finding himself gradually drawn to an actress....
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TALKING ABOUT TREES
Suleiman and three further members of the ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema. They are united not only by their love of cinema and their passionate desire to restore old film stock and draw attention to Sudanese film history...
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MOHAMMED EL AMIN
Mohamed El Amin was born on February 20, 1945 in Sudan, where he studied elementary education at Wad Madani Eastern Elementary School in Al Jazirah State. His passion for music and singing strengthened his relationship with the Blue Nile...
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MODERN SUDANESE POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY
Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual...
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DIFRET
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama DIFRET, based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country’s...
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ETHIOPIA: MODERN NATION - ANCIENT ROOTS OCTOBER 2019-MAY 2020
The major goal of this Ethiopia-focused season is to shed a new light on Ethiopia’s history and contemporary condition, while also considering its contributions to current debates on modernity and the postcolonial condition.
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Global Museum Launch Middle East Premiere
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
LAMB
When Ephraim, an Ethiopian boy, is sent from his homeland to live with distant relatives, he takes his beloved sheep with him. One day, his uncle announces that he will have to sacrifice his sheep for the upcoming religious...
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TEZA
Teza, set in Ethiopia and Germany, chronicles the return of the African intellectual Anberber to his country of birth during the repressive Marxist regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his...
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Axis of Solidarity : Landmarks, Platforms, Futures
This conference will bring together scholars, writers, curators, researchers, and artists to reflect on the international solidarity movements that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century during processes of decolonisation in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Global Africa: African and African Diaspora Studies in the 21st Century
The Africa Institute is organizing Global Africa: African and African Diaspora Studies in the 21st Century, an international conference, to be held on March 12-14, 2019 in Sharjah, UAE. The three-day conference will be the first to take place in the newly rebuilt Africa Hall, originally constructed in 1976 as a first class venue for showcasing African cultures, theatre, dance and musical performances.
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5-plus-1: Rethinking Abstraction
Sharjah Art Foundation presents 5-plus-1: Rethinking Abstraction, a symposium that revisits the original 5-plus-1 exhibition curated by Frank Bowling in 1969. The symposium considers Bowling’s work and that of his contemporaries, who invested abstraction with social, cultural and personal meaning.
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