Signs of Remarkable History

Signs of Remarkable History from maryamkashani on Vimeo.

Oscar Wilde, Pablo Neruda, Ibn Khaldun, and the Qur’an. In this film of portrait and landscape, American Muslim students and scholars read or recite texts they have chosen that have some meaning or significance to them. Through their choices of texts and the places and times they have chosen to perform them, they and the director explore the pleasures of the word and the aspirations of becoming that reading yields.