Screenings

Citizen, Denizen, Alien: Adoption via Lebanon: Lecture and Film Screening

Tuesday, Apr 19, 2016
5:30pm -> 8:30pm
American University of Beirut (AUB)

The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at AUB presents a fellowship lecture followed by a presentation/film screening:

Citizen, Denizen, Alien: Adoption Via Lebanon: Practices of Extirpation and Their Impact on Kinship, Community, Identity, and Citizenship.
This lecture will present adoption practices in their historical, political, and economic context. It will examine the results of these practices decades after their transaction, and their impact on our notions of identity and citizenship.

Dida Zalzal will present an overview of the work undertaken by the local NGO Badael/Alternatives.
This will be followed by a screening of the documentary Memories Unknown: This film tells the stories of Lebanese children adopted to foreign countries, and their search for origins and family.

The researcher/director Sophie DEEK will be present to field questions after the screening.

Location: West Hall, Auditorium A