6 PM – Pacifica Evening News with Sharon Sabotta
6:30 – Syria, Art, and Collective Memory: An interview with artist Dima Nachawi
KPFA’s Mira Nabulsi interviews Syrian artist Dima Nashawi. Dima is an illustrator, clown and the founder of Memory Initiative for Syrian Culture (MISC). She is based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her illustrations portray stories from the Syrian collective memory, as well as her personal experiences. She interacts through her art with human rights issues around the world, focusing on advocating for prisoner of conscience and the forced disappeared. Mira asks Dima about her art, Syria 8 years after people revolted against the Bashar Al Assad regime and the importance of creative work in preserving a nation’s collective memory.
Produced and hosted by Mira Nabulsi