Asmarina: Voices and Images of a Postcolonial Heritage

Screening

when May 19, 2022 6:30‐8pm where NYUAD Campus, Conference Center Part of the "Heritage and Memory" Series who NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
Open to the Public

Asmarina: Voices and Images of a Postcolonial Heritage

We regret to inform you that May 19 Film Screening has been postponed until further notice.

In contrast to media narratives that portray African immigration to Italy as a recent phenomenon, Asmarina offers another vision of the African diaspora in Italy, one that demonstrates the long-standing presence of Eritrean and Ethiopian communities, as well as their contributions to the development of Italian postwar national identity. Asmarina is also a study of contemporary Italy, currently dealing with a rise in xenophobic attacks against African migrants, ongoing migrant catastrophes in the Mediterranean, and the struggle of second-generation Italians of African descent to gain full citizenship rights.

Screening followed by Q&A with the film directors Alan Maglio & Medhin Paolos

[Director: Alan Maglio & Medhin Paolos | Italy | 2015 | 69 mins | Italian w/ English subtitles]

In collaboration with

Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies in the UAE, NYUAD

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