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CWC Global: The Burning:
The Untold Story of
Africa's Refugee Crisis
with filmmaker Isabella Alexander-Nathani
Tuesday, April 7 / 7:00 PM
Pollock Theater, UCSB
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The Burning takes audiences across the world’s deadliest migration route: the Mediterranean Sea. A young mother, a brotherhood of orphaned boys, and a father desperate to reunite with his family lead viewers over 9,000 miles to reach a stretch of coast where only eight miles of sea separate Africa from Europe. Over the past decade, the European Union has boldly violated international law to transform neighboring African nations into brutal holding cells for the millions of Africans who are forced to flee their homes every year. With foreign media banned across North Africa, the human costs of the EU’s policies have been hidden from view. Filmed undercover over the course of ten years and across twelve countries, The Burning brings the untold story of Africa’s refugee crisis to light.
Filmmaker Isabella Alexander-Nathani will join moderator Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of The Burning. This event is presented as part of the UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Santa Barbara.
Sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center and the UCSB Migration Initiative.
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Isabella Alexander-Nathani (filmmaker)
Dr. Isabella Alexander-Nathani is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, educator, and human rights activist. She wrote Burning at Europe’s Borders and directed The Burning: The Untold Story of Africa’s Refugee Crisis for PBS. Her work has appeared on BBC, CNN, NPR, and Al Jazeera, and she is a contributor to SAPIENS. She has taught at Emory University, Morocco’s national university in Rabat, and UCLA. She now serves as Founder and Executive Director of Small World Films, a nonprofit film production studio.
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Moderator Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
(Global Studies, UCSB)
Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is an Associate Professor of Global Studies at UCSB. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees (2024), which has won eight book awards across multiple academic fields. He also serves as Associate Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and coordinator of the UCSB Migration Initiative.
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