This year’s 2^nd Global Africas online event - Gender, Representation, and the Maghreb - will take place during FSU’s International Education Month on November 11^th & 12^th. 

Hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and co-sponsored by the FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights and the FSU Middle East Center, this event will bring together Tunisian director Raja Amari, Moroccan rapper Khtek, and Moroccan artist Merieme Mesfioui. 

• November 12, 10am-11am: Discussion with Raja Amari
• November 12, 11am-12pm: Discussion with Merieme Mesfioui

This year’s event also includes free streaming of two films of Raja Amari’s film for members of the FSU community:  

She Had a Dream (2020) 

This documentary is about Ghofrane, 25, a young Black Tunisian woman. A committed activist who speaks her mind, she embodies Tunisia's current political upheaval. As a victim of racial discrimination, Ghofrane decides to go into politics. 

Foreign Body (2016) 

This drama centers on Samia, a young Tunisian woman who informs on her radical Islamist brother and then arrives illegally in France where she finds danger as well as hope. 

For the program schedule and more information, visit: 

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/Events/Global-Africas-Gender-Representation-and-the-Maghreb 

Link for the films:  

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/Events/Global_Africas_Film_Streaming