Upcoming Event: We Are Here-Afro-Lebanese & Afro-Iranian Feminist Perspectives on Self-Determination & Freedom
Promotional flyer for the upcoming Zoom event, “We Are Here: Afro-Lebanese & Afro-Iranian Feminist Perspectives on Self-Determination & Freedom” featuring Lama El Amine (left) and Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda (right).
By Black Women Radicals
Join us for the upcoming event on Afro-feminist perspectives on the invasions in Lebanon and Iran.
On Saturday, May 2nd from 12-1:15 PM EST/5 PM-6:15 PM GMT, join us for the online event, “We Are Here: Afro-Lebanese and Afro-Iranian Feminist Perspectives on Self-Determination and Freedom.”
The event will take place on Zoom. ASL interpretation will be provided. The event will be recorded and uploaded to Youtube.
You can register for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/WeAreHereBWR
About the event: This event centers historical and contemporary politics on U.S. and Israeli imperialism, violence, and militarization in Iran and Lebanon. Currently, we are seeing illegal U.S. and Israeli military invasions of Iran and Lebanon, attempting to destabilize the sovereignty of these nations and steal their resources. The relentless bombings enacted by the U.S. and Israel have taken thousands of lives and have left countless people displaced. Furthermore, these attacks by U.S. and Israeli governments on Iran and Lebanon are not new and are connected to a long history of politics and geopolitics of invasion.
However, what are Afro-Lebanese and Afro-Iranian feminist perspectives on past and present U.S.-Israeli human rights violations and war crimes and how are they resisting across political, digital, and social networks? Moreover, how have Afro-Lebanese and Afro-Iranian communities been pivotal in also addressing and resisting anti-Black racism, patriarchal and sexist violence, and systematic human rights violations enacted by Lebanese and Iranian governments?
Panelists Lama Amine and Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda will offer commentary from Afro-Lebanese and Afro-Iranian feminist perspectives.
About the Panelists
Lama Amine
Photo of Lama Amine. Courtesy of Lama El Amine.
Lama Amine is a multidisciplinary artist from Lebanon working across performance, choreography, movement direction, and teaching, with a deep commitment to social engagement. She is the Director of Arts at Seenaryo, where she leads theatre programs across the region. Lama holds an MFA in Movement Direction & Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Her work practice weaves together physical theatre, community storytelling, and embodied practice, often focusing on themes of trauma, identity, and collective healing. She is passionate about creating inclusive creative spaces, especially for women, youth, and underrepresented voices.
Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda
Photo of Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda. Photo courtesy of Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda.
Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda is a Congolese Iranian award-winning filmmaker, recovering human rights lawyer and founder/creative director at the Collective for Black Iranians. Her films are grounded in shared African and Iranian heritage as it lyrically tells less heard stories in both documentary and fiction form. She is currently in post-production of her narrative short, The Things that Rot, and in production of two feature documentaries, A Black Girl, From Iran and Queens of Freetown, Searching for FannyAnn. Priscillia is a 2026 Berlinale Talents, 2025 Locarno Open Doors Director and 2024 Atlantic Fellow on Racial Equity. Her work has been published in many outlets from AlJazeera, BBC World, Screendaily, Variety and more. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town at the African Feminist and Art department where she researches and writes on Siyah, blackness in Iran.