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Let’s Talk about the Middle East
The Miniplex at Richards’ Goat Tavern
Come watch brilliant Middle East films and discuss the Middle East with HSU Professor Leena Dallasheh.
Thursday, February 2, 7PM: The Return to Homs (2013) by Talal Derki
The film traces follows Abdul Baset al-Sarout, once a goalkeeper for Syria’s national youth football team during the early phases of the Revolution/Civil War in Syria. When the Syrian regime responds with brutality, he and his friends to move from peaceful protest to armed militia.
Thursday, March 2, 7PM: Baran (2001) by Majid Majidi
This film offers a glimpse to the lives of Afghani refugees in Tehran (then over a million, now almost 3 million). The romantic film tells the story of Lateef, a young Iranian man, and Baran, the young Afghan refugee girl, who disguises as boy to work at a construction site after her father is injured and can no longer support his family.
Thursday, April 6, 7PM: Arna’s Children (2004) by Juliano Mer Khamis
Juliano Mer Khamis follows 15 years of the life of his mother, Arna, an Israeli activist. The documentary covers her work with children of the Jenin camp, who became, in a sense, Arna’s children, over the years from the first Intifada through her death from cancer in 1995. Juliano’s film continues beyond Arna’s death to the second Intifada in 2000, specifically highlighting the tragic destiny of Arna’s children: the children whom Arna taught, who were killed in an Israeli military operation in the Jenin camp.
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