Celebrating Dissent - Neither Allah nor Master by Nadia El Fani.webm

In this programme, we watch Nadia El Fani’s film and talk about politics, blasphemy and secularism with Fani, Hind Bariaz, Ismail Mohamed, Karrar Al Asfoor, Zara Kay and Wissam Charafeddine. August 2010: Tunisia is in the middle of Ramadan under Ben Ali’s regime. Despite the weight of censorship, Nadia El Fani films a country which seems open to the principle of freedom of conscience and liberal in its relationship to Islam. 3 months later, the Tunisian Revolution breaks out and Nadia is out in the field. While the Arab World enters an era of radical change, Tunisia, which initiated the wind of revolt, is once again a “laboratory country” for its outlook on religion. And what if, for once, a Muslim-majority country opted for a secular constitution? About the speakers Nadia El Fani is a filmmaker living in France, who cannot return home because of her film “Neither Allah nor Master”. The film is an account of Tunisian life immediately before and after the fall of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Others films she made include “Ouled Lenine” and “Our Breasts, Our Weapons!”. Hind Bariaz is a Moroccan rights activist. Besides her job as an English teacher, she holds a hotline to inform callers