An RU-N Documentary Premiere
The first short documentary produced by the Center on Migration and the Global City’s Newest Americans project, Notes for My Homeland, is now live on National Geographic's Proof . It tells the story behind composer Malek Jandali’s song, Watani Ana (I Am My Homeland), which was inspired by the killing of children in the Syrian city of Dara’a.
Newest Americans is a multimedia and multi-disciplinary collaboration between media professionals, Rutgers University-Newark, and the community it was created to serve. Newest Americans brings together journalists, media-makers, artists, research faculty and students documenting the stories that radiate from the most diverse university in the nation.
Newest Americans is coordinated by the Center on Migration and the Global City, and faculty in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, in partnership with VII Photo and Talking Eyes Media. VII Photo is the preeminent visual documentary collective, representing some of the world’s most accomplished photo-journalists and documentary makers, and Talking Eyes Media is the creator of award-winning documentary films, multimedia, books and exhibitions.
Newest Americans aims to tell stories that afford a glimpse into the new world the newest Americans are navigating and transforming, and a vision of our demographic future.
For more information, please contact Tim Raphael, Director, Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers-Newark, traphael@andromeda.rutgers.edu .
Photo: Malek Jandali, who will be the first Arab-American composer to premiere at Carnegie Hall, on January 31.
