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*Apologies for cross-posting* Third Text announces Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies Film festival & talks, programmed with the ICA, London 21 September 2011 - 13 October 2011 Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies is a five-day programme of films and related talks, from Wednesday 21 September to Sunday 25 September 2011, organised by Third Text in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is a timely event. The first months of 2011 focused the world's attention on the 'Arab Spring' and its wildfire mass demonstrations for democracy across the Arab regions. History has since speedily moved on and the complexities of that Spring are apparent. We are witness to a 'Muslim world' proving itself anything but unchanging and monolithic. The programme, put together against the background of the Arab Spring, raises fundamental issues of religious and civic freedom, human rights, gender and social equality and the challenges of modernity. The programme is based on the Third Text special issue Cinema in Muslim Societies <http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctte20/24/1> , no 102, vol 24, no1, January 2010, guest edited by Ali Nobil Ahmad, and published by Routledge Taylor & Francis. The co-curators of this programme are Ali Nobil Ahmad (Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS University in Lahore), Haim Bresheeth (Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, Co-editor of The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel, special double-issue of Third Text, vol 20, issue 3/4) and Richard Appignanesi (Executive Editor of Third Text who recently compiled and edited Beyond Cultural Diversity: The Case for Creativity: A Third Text Report, ThirdText Publications, commissioned by Arts Council England). The curators have selected eight recent films that illustrate the wide range of cinematic aesthetics from across Muslim societies. Each film viewing will be introduced by an acknowledged specialist. Tickets for talks and films can be booked online at the ICA website http://www.ica.org.uk/29968/Seasons/Winds-of-Change-Cinema-from-Muslim-S ocieties.html Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH, Tickets and Information 020 7930 3647 Find out more about Third Text at www.tandfonline.com/ctte Read a selection of free articles on cross-media at http://bit.ly/ThirdText -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this email message may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. 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