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The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre

Film Screening & Discussion with Sara Abou Rashed

Celebrate World Refugee Day with a screening of The Foreigner's Home, a film on Toni Morrison's guest exhibition at the Louvre that explores race, identity, "foreignness," and art's redemptive power.

Celebrate World Refugee Day with a screening of The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre followed by a community conversation. The documentary screening (57 minutes) will be followed by a community conversation discussing the themes of race, identity, "foreignness," and art's redemptive power explored in the film. Sara Abou Rashed, Palestinian American poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself, will facilitate the community conversation.

Find out more about the documentary on The Foreigner's Home webpage.

About the Moderator:

Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian American poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, Sara’s work has been commended by the UK Forward Prize and received the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Arab Lit Quarterly, 9-12 McGraw Hill Language Arts Curriculum, and in the anthologies A Land With a People, Heaven Looks Like Us, and Ask the Night for a Dream, among others. A graduate of Denison University, Sara lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she serves on the Columbus City Council’s Commission on Immigrant and Refugee Affairs while pursuing a PhD at The Ohio State University. Theories of Return is her debut poetry collection.

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