{"id":699,"date":"2019-12-17T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=699"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:07","slug":"filmmaker-and-activist-hicham-kayeds-visit-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2019\/filmmaker-and-activist-hicham-kayeds-visit-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker and Activist Hicham Kayed&#8217;s Visit to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Filmmaker and Activist Hicham Kayed&#8217;s Visit to Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October, LERRN had the pleasure of inviting filmmaker and activist Hicham Kayed to Canada to share the work of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janacenter.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Jana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a wider audience and explore ways that LERRN could support Al-Jana\u2019s important work. Al-Jana is a member of LERRN&#8217;s Lebanon Working Group active in setting LERRN&#8217;s priorities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are constantly working to amplify the voices of our partners in the Global South, which hosts 80% of the world\u2019s refugees. In his visit, Hicham presented his film AISLE, his pictorial and oral work of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and much more. For him, oral history is a valuable way to document Palestinian history and spread awareness about the difficulties they face.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 id=\"we-have-to-focus-on-these-issues-to-let-people-know-what-happened-and-whats-going-on-for-these-people-hicham-kayed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cWe have to focus on these issues to let people know what happened and what\u2019s going on for these people.\u201d -Hicham Kayed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out the video below to find out more about Hicham\u2019s visit to Canada and his important work.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Documentary filmmaker Hicham Kayed on Refugees and LERRN\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1F8nPE-sxNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, LERRN had the pleasure of inviting filmmaker and activist Hicham Kayed to Canada to share the work of Al-Jana with a wider audience and explore ways that LERRN could support Al-Jana\u2019s important work. Al-Jana is a member of LERRN&#8217;s Lebanon Working Group active in setting LERRN&#8217;s priorities.&nbsp; &nbsp; We are constantly working to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[111,1],"tags":[558],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alhhwg-p","category-news","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}