LYD: Film Screening and Conversation with Director Rami Younis and Assistant Professor of Anthropology George Bajalia

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 8:00pm
Goldsmith Family Cinema, Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies

Free admission

Directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland, Lyd (2023) tells the story of the city that once connected Palestine to the world. The feature-length, sci-fi documentary shares multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel. Film screening followed by a conversation with director Rami Younis and Assistant Professor of Anthropology George Bajalia.

Director/producer Rami Younis is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist and activist from Lyd. He was a 2019–20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. As a journalist, he mainly wrote for the online magazine +972 and served as both writer and editor of its Hebrew sister site, “local call,” a journalistic project he co-founded, designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism outlets. Younis served as a parliamentary consultant and media spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) Haneen Zoabi. Younis is also co-founder and manager of the first-ever Palestine Music Expo, an event that connects the local Palestinian music scene to the worldwide industry. Younis is the host of the Arabic-language daily news show, “On the Other Hand.”

Co-sponsored by the Sonnenblick Fund of the English Department, College of Film and the Moving Image, Creative Writing in English, Middle Eastern Studies Minor, Center for the Arts, and Committee on Palestine Studies.

Presented as part of the Palestine Film Series, featured in the spring’s Wesleyan Film Series.