The Addiction (1995).
The Silence (Sokout, 1998).
I will be giving a research seminar at the Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue (CID) at Dublin City University tomorrow. The talk is titled “Film and the Aesthetics of Incarnation: An Interreligious Perspective” and will explore how cinema both shapes and is shaped by religious concepts, lived experiences, and understandings of the divine in embodied form. All are very welcome. More information here.
Amreeka.
Today I’ll be giving a talk titled “Embodied Faith and Diasporic Resilience: Religion and Peacebuilding in Cherien Dabis’s Amreeka” at Trinity College Dublin. In this presentation, I explore how Amreeka (2009) portrays the emotional and cultural journey of a Palestinian Christian family navigating migration, identity, and belonging in the United States, highlighting how small gestures of care and shared domestic life become acts of resilience and peacebuilding. The film offers a quiet yet powerful counter-narrative to dominant post-9/11 representations of Arab identity, and I look forward to discussing its insights on faith, culture, and the everyday practice of coexistence.
