Africa Table - 'N'appartenir' or the Impossible Sense of Belonging

Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.

Speaker: Karim Miské, Filmmaker & Writer, FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor, 2017-18, Stanford University

From New-York in the 60's to the Mauritanian desert in the 80's, and 21st Century Multicultural Paris, Karim Miské takes you on a journey through time, space and identity. 

Karim Miské is film-maker and novelist. Miské made a number of documentaries for twenty years on a wide range of issues including colonial legacies, hip hop culture, informal economy, freedom of press, and bioethics. His widely-acclaimed debut novel Arab Jazz (2012) won the English PEN Award. His recent works are autobiographical graphical novels N’appartenir (“Unbelonging”, 2015) and S’appartenir (“Belonging”, 2016). Miské is FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor, 2017-18 and Aron Rodrigue International Visitor, 2017-18.

As a follow up to this event, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies will host a screening of documentary film Muslims of France in a two-part series in 219 Encina Hall West at 5:30-7:30pm:

Thursday February 8Episode 1: Indigènes 1904 -1945Episode 2: Immigrants 1945 -1981Tuesday February 13Episode 3: French 1981 -2009Conversation with director Karim Miské and Professor Cécile Alduy