The University hosts Monica Moore at a Seminar about the Importance of Documentation and Media in the Solidification of the Palestinian Identity

The seminar was preceded by her meeting with the President of the University Prof. Dr. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri, who gave an introductory explanation about the university and its inception.

While the filmmaker Monica expressed great admiration of the University, and she indicated that she wandered in several countries from Kazakhstan to California State, but never saw a university as beautiful as the Arab American University.

After the meeting the seminar was held and was attended by the Head and the professors of the Arabic language and Media Department, and it was inaugurated by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts Dr. Mahmoud Dawabsheh who welcomed the guest, calling on students to take advantage of the experience of the German filmmaker Monika who was contemporary to the Palestinian revolution.

For her part, the responsible of archive at the Palestinian Public Authority for Radio and Television Ms. Rula Shahwan presented a brief biography of the filmmaker, where she pointed out that Monica sympathies with the Palestinian people, and that she is contemporary the Palestinian revolution since its inception in the sixties, illustrated that Monica had been very affected by the Algerian revolution and that she sided with the oppressed and struggles for their sake.

From her side, Monica reviewed her personal experience and the motives that made her join the side of the Palestinian revolution in the sixties and seventies of the last century, and the most important historical stages that the Palestinian cause had went through, and how the developments in the Palestinian arena outside Palestine had affected in the formation of an independent Palestinian identity, especially the cultural identity.  She then talked about the Palestinian cinema and its role in the deployment of the Palestinian issue and transferring it to universality, noting that she collected a large part of the Palestinian archive, reconditioned it and saved it in the Italian National Archives.

It is worth noting that this activity is organized in cooperation with the Palestinian Public Authority for Radio and Television, which subsidized the project "the glow of memory" in the ongoing quest to raise awareness of the importance of audiovisual archives as one of the essential pillars in order to preserve the Palestinian memory lively, and to make it available for younger generations, and to protect it from loss.