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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/art-and-exile-mohammad-al-attar-in-
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SUMMARY:Art and Exile: Mohammad Al Attar in conversation with Lisa Wedeen
DESCRIPTION:IL.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conversation with Lisa Wedeen\, Moham
 mad Al Attar will discuss his creative practice and some of the questions 
 he and other Syrian artists in exile grapple with as they reflect on their
  country’s recent past and imagine possible futures: What bargains do we
  make to stay safe? Whose memories count as the truth about the past\, and
  how do revolutionary narratives get authorized? What would justice be for
  Syrians around the world having to deal with their sense of helplessness 
 and abandonment? And what is the role of art in these urgent political\, l
 egal\, and ethical discussions?\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nMohammad Al Attar i
 s a playwright\, dramaturg\, and author celebrated for his work chroniclin
 g war-torn Syria and the aftermaths of the 2011 uprisings. Plays such as 
 Yesterday’s Encounter (2024)\, Damascus 2045 (2021)\, The Factory (
 2019)\, Aleppo: A Portrait of Absence (2017)\, and While I Was Waiting
  (2016) take place at the boundary between fiction and documentary. They 
 have been staged at theaters and festivals around the world.\n\nBorn in Da
 mascus and now living in Berlin\, Al Attar is in Chicago this spring as a 
 Visiting Scholar\, hosted by the Reimagining Cosmopolitanism project wit
 h the support of the Neubauer Collegium and 3CT. During his time here\, as
 ide from working on a new play\, he will take an active part in the projec
 t’s research into what it means to be a citizen of the world today.\n\nP
 resented by the Neubauer Collegium and the Chicago Center for Contemporary
  Theory (3CT) with support from the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.\
 n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, and registration is recomme
 nded. Please email us at ccct@uchicago.edu if you require any accommodat
 ions to enable your full participation.\n\nIMAGE: While I Was Waiting\, w
 ritten by Mohammad Al Attar\, performed at the Lincoln Center\, New York\,
  2017. Photo: Didier Nadeau.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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