LYD: Film Screening and Director Q&A

LYD: Film Screening and Director Q&A

Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, American University

The film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was taken over when Israel was established in 1948. An exploration of what it once was, and what it is now, in the context of the continuing conflicts and the war in Gaza, Lyd’s excavation of one community’s complex history offers us not only lessons, but possible futures. Made by a Palestinian from Lyd and a Jewish American, Lyd provides much-needed context for this moment, as it goes deep into the history of the city and its residents. – Film Screening will be followed by a moderated conversation with the film’s Directors, Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland.

Host or Publisher Anthropology Department, American University