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Fatal Love 2006

at the Queens Museum of Art
Saturday, August 19

Farheen Haq, Surveillance, 2005.

For the 6th year, the QMA will host Fatal Love, an event based around the principles of independence, tolerance and freedom of South Asian nations. Designed to raise discussion and examine current global struggles for resistance, Fatal Love 06 will include political and radical readings, discussions and performances by Kiran Desai, Chanika Svetvilas and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Naeem Mohaeimen, Emergency Broadcast Artists and the release of Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. Editor of the anthology Sarah Husain will be accompanied by contributors Sham e ali Al Jamil, Chaumtoli Huq and Zohra Saeed.

Schedule of Events

3:15 - Suitcases on Tour: Chanika Svetvilas and AALDEF
3:30 - The Young Man Was No Longer: Video & Text, Naeem Mohaiemen.
Originally presented at Dictionary of War, Munich
3:45 - Voices of Resistance: Sarah Husain, Chaumtoli Huq, Sham e Ali Al Jameel, Zohra Saeed — Readings and Discussion
4:45 - Kiran Desai reading from her latest book, The Inheritance of Loss
5:00 - Emergency Broadcast Artists
5:30 - Reception

For additional information, please visit http://www.queensmuseum.org/ or call 718-592-9700.