MEMBER BLOG TAG: sameer padania
| Friday, May 1, 2009 1:16AM | | | | Wafaa, Terricabras, Guibert | Tags: TERRICABRAS, guibert, wafaa bilal, shoot an iraqi, human rights, pen world voices, sameer padania
| | | A Spanish philosopher, a French graphic novelist, and an Iraqi performance artist meet in a bar...
Any number of amusing scenarios could have emerged from the illuminating panel, "Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling" at the PEN World Voices Festival. Three seemingly unrelated creators engaged in a lively discussion about revolution and technology. Not only was there a lack of slapstick antics that could make for jokes, there was a loose concurrence of opinion and broader confluence of bristling ideas. Sameer Padania of the human rights organization Witness.org moderated.
Trigger Happy
But I speak vaguely. Wafaa Bilal is an Iraqi artist and professor who is perhaps best known for his project 'Shoot an Iraqi.' Bilal lost a brother in Iraq to an air-to-surface... | | | | | |
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