Solomon Hakim

 

Solomon is the son of Jewish parents who fled newly formed Nasserist Egypt in the early 1960s. In 1983, independent filmmaker, Mary Halawani, a cousin of Solomon’s … made a short documentary film about the Jewish exodus from Egypt focusing on Solomon’s grandmother, the family matriarch, Rosette Hakim, and her nostalgia for the warm weather and people she reluctantly left behind. The film was symbolically broadcast around the Passover holiday for a while in the 80s and 90s on New York tri-state affiliates of PBS. It’s available here for anyone who might be interested. https://jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/imissthesun.htm Solomon is profoundly inspired and moved by the goals of Clarity and is eager to work with the awe inspiring breadth of talent of its members, each with their own deeply compelling and fascinating stories. He currently teaches at the university level in Korea. To his own relative surprise, he finds himself identifying these days as an avid secular Zionist.