The Black is Beautiful Film Series is a showcase of black cinema curated by poet, hip-hop artist and educator, Rajnii Eddins.  

About Black Panther:

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

This award-winning blockbuster was the highest grossing film for a black director. 

Directed by Ryan Coogler

Improve your English used in a business setting.  Best for intermediate to advanced English proficiency.

Brown University scholar Joe Leidy leads the discussion of The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar  (Author). C. J. Collins (Translator)

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian ‘hummus tragic’. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he obsessively observes the hummus making ritual–mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina…with just a touch of cumin. But when the ‘Hummus War’ erupted in the Middle East in 2008, amongst the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was intrigued and hungry for more. He discovers a war in the kitchen, just as ferocious as any Arab-Israeli conflict. But this war has no soldiers, bullets, rockets or tanks. Just – CHICK PEAS and HUMMUS!

Staff setup: 10-20 chairs, no tables, needs AV.

Learning English by Rachid al-Daif, trans. from the Arabic by Paula and Adnan Haydar.

Facilitated by Joe Leidy, PhD candidate in modern Middle Eastern history at Brown University.  A native of Burlington, he has an MA in Middle East Studies from University of Texas at Austin and has studied Arabic in Jordan and the West Bank, as well as, archival research in Argentina and Lebanon.

Free copies of the book are available to borrow from the Library's main desk.

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