{"id":699,"date":"2019-12-17T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=699"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:31:22","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":"<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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\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<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><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<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<div class=\"content__video\"><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><\/div>\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. 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