{"id":1750,"date":"2020-01-06T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2020-01-06T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:03:17","slug":"center-for-arabic-culture-and-akdc-to-present-balloons-over-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2020\/01\/06\/center-for-arabic-culture-and-akdc-to-present-balloons-over-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Arabic Culture and AKDC to present Balloons Over Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1751\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON-624x891.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/01\/thumbnail_BALLOONS-OVER-BABYLON.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacboston.org\/\">Center for Arabic Culture<\/a> and the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries, will screen <em>Balloons Over Babylon<\/em> on Saturday, January 11, 2020, 6 PM \u2013 9 PM in <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/?go=3\">Room 3-133 of the MIT campus<\/a>. The film is part of the &#8220;One Voice, Endless Change&#8221; film series for Spring 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>Balloons Over Babylon<\/em> tells the story of Murtada al-Hachami,\u00a0 one man&#8217;s quest to fight terrorism and promote peace and love by flying hot air balloons over his war-torn country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with <a href=\"https:\/\/folkeryden.com\/bio\/\">Folke Ryd\u00e9n<\/a>, the Director;\u00a0Murtada al-Hachami, the subject of the film; <a href=\"https:\/\/wcfia.harvard.edu\/people\/muhamed-h-almaliky\">Dr. Muhamed Almaliky<\/a> of Harvard&#8217;s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/author\/kanan-makiya\">Kanan Makiya<\/a>, writer, Senior Fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/crown\/who\/index.html\">Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies<\/a>, and Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University.<\/p>\n<p>The screening is free and open to the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1011934159164405\/?active_tab=about\">RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/233665005\">Balloons over Babylon &#8211; Trailer (2019)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/frp\">Folke Ryd\u00e9n Production<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Arabic Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries, will screen Balloons Over Babylon on Saturday, January 11, 2020, 6 PM \u2013 9 PM in Room 3-133 of the MIT campus. The film is part of the &#8220;One Voice, Endless Change&#8221; film series for Spring 2020. Balloons Over Babylon tells the story of Murtada al-Hachami,\u00a0 one man&#8217;s quest to fight terrorism and promote peace and love by flying hot air balloons over his war-torn country.&#8221; The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Folke Ryd\u00e9n, the Director;\u00a0Murtada al-Hachami, the subject of the film; Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":true,"event_date":"January 11, 2020","event_start_time":"6 pm","event_end_time":"9 pm"},"categories":[268,273],"tags":[292,339,343,348,411,417,448],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-events","tag-aga-khan-documentation-center","tag-cac","tag-center-for-arabic-culture","tag-collaborations","tag-iraq","tag-kanan-makiya","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}