Screening: Kanafani Karaoke w/Filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky

In 1970, Ghassan Kanafani – spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, writer, and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader – gave a now-legendary 5-minute television news interview to Richard Carleton in Beirut. Two years later, Kanafani – a “commando who never fired a gun” – was assassinated by the Mossad. Kanafani Karaoke is a participatory event in which any audience member can sign up to recreate this interview. This informal, collective act of resistance will give participants the chance to experience the passion of Kanafani’s steadfastness for themselves, to develop their familiarity with the language of revolutionary politics, to defy Israel’s attempts to silence Kanafani and erase his legacy, and to have some silly fun in the midst of so much horror.