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.
