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Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Lost Dream<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n Ten years after the US-led war in Iraq, thousands of displaced Iraqi refugees are still facing a crisis in the United States, yet their personal stories have been under reported in mainstream news. Director Jehan Harney follows Nazar and Salam who fled Iraq to avoid threats by Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and Iraqi insurgents that see them as “traitors” for supporting US forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom. <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of Layali Bala Noom<\/em><\/strong> with Director Eliane Raheb. <\/p>\n\n Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n “Playful and aggressive, elegant and confrontational, sardonic and melancholic, the dense film looks at the legacy of Lebanon’s sectarian civil war (1975-1990) through its discontents.” Filmcomment- Nicholas Rapold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n “The best new documentary at True/False was Sleepless Nights<\/em>, a wrenching, narratively and thematically dense dual portrait of two people struggling to reconcile their experiences during Lebanon’s civil war in the 1980s.Sleepless Nights<\/em> is a bold documentary that asks difficult questions about the process of truth and reconciliation in a country still divided among religious and political lines, but it’s also an example of a filmmaker trying to think and work in images.” POV magazine-Adam Nayman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a guest lecture on Arab Cinema with Director Eliane Raheb. <\/p>\n\n Do the changes/revolutions have a significant impact on Arab cinema? And if yes how? Is it in its form, content, language or institutions? What’s expected today from the Arab filmmakers nowadays? Are they fighting for new cinema laws, that disable censorship and give more liberty and freedom of expression? Will there be more space for independent movies on the market? We will try to answer these questions through taking some examples from the history of the Arab Cinema that were influenced by the winds of changes of the 60s, 70s and 80s eras (Algeria, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon), and compare them to today’s cinema trends in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, with a reflection on the role of cinema in times of changes, fiction v/s documentary.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n About The Director<\/p>\n\n Eliane Raheb <\/strong>is born in Lebanon and is the director of 2 short films: The last screening and Meeting, and of the documentaries : Karib Baiid (So near yet so far), Intihar (Suicide) and Hayda Lubnan (“This is Lebanon”) which received the Excellency Award at the Yamagata film festival, and was broadcasted on ARTE/ZDF/ Al Jadeed and NHK. Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) is her first feature documentary.<\/p>\n\n With Nizar Hassan, she founded ITAR productions, and the cross media documentary Arabi Hor (Free Arabs) www.arabihor.com<\/a>, a project on the dailies of people within the Arab revolutions, that produced 160 short documentaries aired online.<\/p>\n\n She is also one of the founders of the cultural cooperative for cinema Beirut DC , where she was the artistic director of “Ayam Beirut al Cinem’iya” film festival for 6 editions.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Time That Remains. Pizza and refreshments provided! <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes, The Time That Remains<\/strong> is an intimate, semi-autobiographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland from the time Israel declared its independence in 1948 to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n');
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{"by":"Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club","content":" Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Lost Dream. Ten years after the US-led war in Iraq, thousands of displaced Iraqi refugees are still facing a crisis in the United States, yet their personal stories have been under reported in mainstream news. Director Jehan Harney follows Nazar and Salam who fled Iraq to avoid threats by Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and Iraqi insurgents that see them as “traitors” for supporting US forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of Layali Bala Noom with Director Eliane Raheb. Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible. “Playful and aggressive, elegant and confrontational, sardonic and melancholic, the dense film looks at the legacy of Lebanon’s sectarian civil war (1975-1990) through its discontents.” Filmcomment- Nicholas Rapold “The best new documentary at True/False was Sleepless Nights, a wrenching, narratively and thematically dense dual portrait of two people struggling to reconcile their experiences during Lebanon’s civil war in the 1980s.Sleepless Nights is a bold documentary that asks difficult questions about the process of truth and reconciliation in a country still divided among religious and political lines, but it’s also an example of a filmmaker trying to think and work in images.” POV magazine-Adam Nayman Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a guest lecture on Arab Cinema with Director Eliane Raheb. Do the changes/revolutions have a significant impact on Arab cinema? And if yes how? Is it in its form, content, language or institutions? What’s expected today from the Arab filmmakers nowadays? Are they fighting for new cinema laws, that disable censorship and give more liberty and freedom of expression? Will there be more space for independent movies on the market? We will try to answer these questions through taking some examples from the history of the Arab Cinema that were influenced by the winds of changes of the 60s, 70s and 80s eras (Algeria, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon), and compare them to today’s cinema trends in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, with a reflection on the role of cinema in times of changes, fiction v/s documentary. About The Director Eliane Raheb is born in Lebanon and is the director of 2 short films: The last screening and Meeting, and of the documentaries : Karib Baiid (So near yet so far), Intihar (Suicide) and Hayda Lubnan (“This is Lebanon”) which received the Excellency Award at the Yamagata film festival, and was broadcasted on ARTE/ZDF/ Al Jadeed and NHK. Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) is her first feature documentary. With Nizar Hassan, she founded ITAR productions, and the cross media documentary Arabi Hor (Free Arabs) www.arabihor.com, a project on the dailies of people within the Arab revolutions, that produced 160 short documentaries aired online. She is also one of the founders of the cultural cooperative for cinema Beirut DC , where she was the artistic director of “Ayam Beirut al Cinem’iya” film festival for 6 editions. Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Time That Remains. Pizza and refreshments provided! Nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes, The Time That Remains is an intimate, semi-autobiographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland from the time Israel declared its independence in 1948 to the present day.
\n By Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club\n
\n 11/19/2014 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center Cinema\n <\/p>\n
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\nOnce in the U.S., however, they find themselves without any resources or support, wondering in the end if their sacrifice was all worth it. Through their home videos, personal diaries, and media clips the film intimately captures their emotional, psychological, and physical struggles as they reconcile their hopes for a liberated Iraq with the harsh reality of refugees without a stable home. The Lost Dream<\/strong> is produced by ITVS and executive produced by Oscar-nominated documentarian (My Country, My Country<\/strong>) Laura Poitras.<\/p>\n\n\n Film Screening: Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless Nights) with Director Eliane Raheb<\/h2>\n
\n By Eliane Raheb\n
\n 11/11/2014 02:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center Cinema\n <\/p>\n The Democratizaion of Arab Cinema In Times of Political Changes<\/h2>\n
\n By Eliane Raheb\n
\n 11/11/2014 11:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room G\n <\/p>\n Film Screening: The Time That Remains<\/h2>\n
\n By Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club\n
\n 11/07/2014 02:30 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room 239A\n <\/p>\n
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\r\nOnce in the U.S., however, they find themselves without any resources or support, wondering in the end if their sacrifice was all worth it. Through their home videos, personal diaries, and media clips the film intimately captures their emotional, psychological, and physical struggles as they reconcile their hopes for a liberated Iraq with the harsh reality of refugees without a stable home. The Lost Dream is produced by ITVS and executive produced by Oscar-nominated documentarian (My Country, My Country) Laura Poitras. Film Screening: The Lost Dream <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n
Film Screening: Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless Nights) with Director Eliane Raheb <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n