Event time:
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 6:30pm
Location:
Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue, Auditorium
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Yale Council on Middle East Studies Cinema presents:
The Spring 2014 North Africa Mini-Series screening : “Zabana! “.
Each film will be followed by a discussion with Youness Elbousty, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University.
The blade stopped twice, before it decapitated the Algerian revolutionary Ahmad Zabana in a sharp stroke. Zabana was the first Algerian martyr to be executed by the guillotine, after the French government with Francois Mitterand as the minister of justice, approved its use. Zabana was executed on 19 June 1956. Barely 30-years-old, his martyrdom sparked the Algerian war that started six months after his execution.
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public