Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A very special event: Conference honoring filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Fernea
Icarus Films is proud to announce a conference organized by the University of Texas Austin in honor of the late professor Elizabeth "BJ" Fernea.
Fernea was a leading scholar, author and filmmaker whose work focused on Women's Issues in the Middle East. Her memoir “Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village” (1965) which detailed her immersion into the lives of the women of Al-Nahra, was a national bestseller.
The conference will take place from October 15 to 17 and is free and open to the public. Click here for more details and a list of speakers, and click here to download the information poster.
For a complete list of Elizabeth Fernea's films distributed by Icarus Films, please click here.Labels: academic conferences, Elizabeth Fernea, keynotes, Middle East, panel, UT Austin, women issues, women's studies
New York Jewish Film Festival
Icarus Films' new acquisition A ROAD TO MECCA, The Journey of Muhammad Asad will have its US premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival next week.
Screenings are held at the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th street on Tuesday January 20th at 3:45pm and Wednesday 21st at 6:15pm.
Director Georg Misch will be in attendance.
For more information, click here!Labels: festival news, islam, Middle East
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Filmmaker Elizabeth Fernea passes at age 81
We were very saddened to learn that Elizabeth "BJ" Fernea passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81. In addition to being a remarkable writer and filmmaker, we knew her to be kind and sincere.
Fernea was a renowned scholar of Middle Eastern Studies and her ground breaking work on women in Islam has been lauded in both academic and film circles.
Our deepest sympathies go to her family.
Read the Los Angeles Times obituaries here and learn more about her films here.
Labels: Elizabeth Fernea, Middle East
Thursday, November 15, 2007
FRIF at the Middle East Studies Association Film Festival
Labels: academic conferences, cinema studies, festival news, Middle East
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