Film Screening: Between Memory and Hope - The Sign Language of Kafr Qasim

Meyad Sarsour-Ndaye will premiere her new film Between Memory and Hope – The Sign Language of Kafr Qasim.

The guests Dirar Kalash and Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman will present an excerpt from their film Flight Manifesto.

At the end we will eat snacks together from recipes from Kafr Qasim.

About the Artists:

Meyad Sarsour-Ndaye is a deaf Muslim-Palestinian artist, filmmaker, and education and inclusion expert. She studied women’s and gender studies and special education in Tel Aviv, where she worked for many years with deaf and deafblind Arabs. She was particularly committed to the education, self-determination, and independence of deaf women. She also supported the linguistic documentation of the village sign language of her hometown Kafr Qasim. Meyad currently lives in Germany, works in a youth club for deaf young people, and gives lectures on deaf people in Palestine and Israel, Palestinian culture, anti-Muslim racism, and women’s rights in Islam.

Dirar Kalash

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

Accessibility Information:

Sarsour-Ndaye’s work is in Palestinian Sign Language and German Sign Language, with German and Arabic subtitles. Kalash and Sniderman’s work has German and English subtitles.

Interpretation between German Sign Language and spoken English and German will be available all evening.

For more information on the accessibility of the gallery, visit our About Us Page.

Diese Veranstaltung ist durch das Förderprogramm Weltoffenes Berlin unterstützt.