Arabs and Terrorism

The Berlin research program "Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe" (EUME), located at the Wissenschaftskolleg, and the "Zentrum Moderner Orient" present as a Berlin premiere a cinematic research project, the documentary WHAT IS SAID ABOUT ARABS AND TERRORISM (USA 2006) by Bassam Haddad. The film critically examines the Western discourse (especially in the USA under Bush) that implicitly and often also explicitly insinuates a connection between Arabs and "terrorism". It does so by means of interviews with well-known persons from the media, from politics and science, as well as with people in the street. In the edit, the statements from various sides of the ideological divide turn into a sort of dialog. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Bassam Haddad, moderated by Sinan Antoon, currently EUME Fellow. The event is in English. (June 15)