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DESCRIPTION:Join the Arab American Cultural Center for a community screening of Lyd, a 
 Sci Fi Documentary: A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the 
 world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have 
 become.\n\nFollowing the film screening, Lyd co-director Rami Younis will 
 join in person for a Q&A session.\n\nLyd in Exile is a feature-length, 
 sci-fi documentary that shares multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the 
 city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel. From the perspective of the city herself, 
 voiced by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi, the viewer is guided 
 through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents. 
 Lyd was once a thriving Palestinian city with a rich history. In 636AD, It 
 was even considered the first capital of Palestine. When the State of 
 Israel was founded in 1948, Lyd became an Israeli city, and in the process, 
 hundreds of Lyd’s Palestinian residents were massacred by Israeli forces, 
 and most of the city’s 50,000 Palestinian residents were exiled. Today, 
 the city has a Jewish Israeli majority and a Palestinian minority and is 
 disinvested and divided by racism and violence. For Palestinians, Lyd’s 
 story is a painful and tragic fall from grace, which is why our film dares 
 to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation 
 of Lyd never happened?\n\nAbout the Director and Producer Rami Younis:  
 \n\nA Palestinian filmmaker, Rami Younis is a writer and journalist from 
 Lyd. He is a former Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. He was as a main 
 contributor to the online magazine +972 and served as editor and a member 
 of the founding collective of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a 
 journalistic project designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism 
 outlets. Rami is also co-founder and manager of the first ever “Palestine 
 Music Expo”, an event that connects the local Palestinian music scene to 
 the world wide industry. Rami was also the first ever host and founder of 
 the Arabic-language daily critical news show, “On the Other Hand” – 
 which called out figures in power positions and debunked fake news spread 
 by them.\n\nhttps://lydinexile.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/05/03/18876135.php
SUMMARY:"LYD" Film Screening and Q&A with Co-Director Rami Younis
LOCATION:Arab American Cultural Center\n3968 Twilight Drive\nSan Jose, CA 95124
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/05/03/18876135.php
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