Kenyan artist & film maker Jim Chuchu; ISIS expert Rami G. Khouri

Program Title: Endeavours - ISIS, The Middle East, and Africa
Description: Jim Chuchu is a visual artist from Nairobi, Kenya and the founder and creative director of The Nest, a visual artist collective. They recently released their debut documentary "Stories Of Our Lives" - which Jim directed - which is a series of vignettes about what it is like to be Queer and African. You can visit Jim's website at jimchuchu.com and the nest at becauseartislife.org

Rami G. Khouri is a Senior Fellow of the Middle Eastern Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science And International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition, he is the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. As well, he is a research associate at the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of conflict at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (his alma mater), a Fellow at the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Jerusalem and a member of the leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School. He also serves on the board of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown. He serves as the editor-at-large and was the former executive editor for the Daily Star, as well as the former editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times.

he has hosted programs on archaeology, history and current public affairs on Jordan Television and radio Jordan. He splits his time between Amman, Beirut, Nazareth and the U.S

Host(s): Dan McPeake
Featured Speakers/Guests: Jim Chuchu Rami G. Khouri

Credits: written & produced by Dan McPeake

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