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Middle East Studies & Middle Eastern Diaspora 2009 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES & MIDDLE EASTERN DIASPORA New Releases 3 Middle Eastern Diaspora 6 Middle East Studies 10 The Work of Jayce Salloum 14 N EW R ELEASES Our mission is to foster the creation, appreciation and dissemination of social issue media made by or about people of color. Today, TWN carries on the progressive vision of NEW daughter. Hadja, a political asylum T H E W AY N O RTH : seeker from Algeria, is sans papiers its founders, and remains the oldest media arts organization M A G H R E B I W O M E N (without papers). The documentary shows these women's struggles to in the United States devoted to filmakers of color and I N M ARSEILLE Shara K. Lange, 2008, 60 min cultivate alternative economic and their global constituencies. "I thought that in France life would social supports for themselves in a be easier—it’s the land of liberty. society that has historically ignored But it wasn’t like that at all." --Fatima or misunderstood them. HO W T O O R D E R Rhazi “These women's lives in the context of a France that seemed From Marseille come the stories on the brink of exploding, provide Online: www.twn.org We accept institutional purchase of North African women making the opportunity for an “inside orders, credit cards and PayPal new lives for themselves in tense, view” of part of one of the most Email: [email protected] complex, contemporary France. consequential mass migrations accounts. Remember to add $20 in the world today as the Islamic for shipping and handling. 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Itto, a young, newly immi- Ford Foundation, the Funding Exchange, the North Star Fund and The Asian Women Giving Circle, as well as individual donors. grated bride, negotiates a new culture while raising her young The Way North Cover Photo: With Blood by Juliana Fredman & Dan O'Reilly Rowe [ 2 ] www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 3 ] [ 2 ] www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 3 ] N EW R ELEASES N EW R ELEASES NEW NEW W H O G I V E S K I S S E S W I T H B L O O D : B IDAM Juliana Fredman & Dan O'Reilly-Rowe, FREELY F R O M H E R 2006, 57 min. AWOL L IPS This documentary follows ordi- Simin Farkhondeh, 2008,41 min. nary people’s efforts to overcome Inspired by the work of Sara Gomez NEW extraordinary obstacles in pursuit of and Cuban Imperfect Cinema, Who A W OL Brigid Maher, 2005,20 min. routine health care in the West Bank Gives Kisses Freely From Her Keisha Johnson, an African American and Gaza Strip. Shot on location Lips, weaves together fiction and women soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq with patients and health workers documentary to tell the story of With Blood after she flees a violent incident. over seven months, this film offers a a filmmaker determined to make On her "walkabout" journey, she thought-provoking, compassionate Resistance here comes not in the a film on temporary marriage, a encounters children who decide to perspective on life in the Occupied form of guns and bombs, but rather taboo subject in Shia Iran. Salomé, help her. Keisha and the children Palestinian Territories. in the people's determination to conducts documentary interviews grow to understand each other continue to strive for life and health with real Iranians who have engaged despite the political barriers that in the face of adversity. With Blood in temporary marriage. They speak have torn their lives apart. offers unique access to these often frankly about the pros and cons of overlooked stories and explores how this type of union as apposed to "Maher evokes a wealth of cross- the confict in the region exacerbates permanent marriage. In the process cultural ambiguities and tensions already difficult and traumatic situa- of learning about Salomé's alienation generated by the war" - Pat Aufderheide, Film Critic tions. from the customs of her homeland, we learn about the complexities National Museum of Women in the Arts, "An important and powerful film. Washington DC, 2007 This story is told through the of the Shia' Islamic institution of Reel Women International Film Festival, voices of people seeking medical temporary marriage. Los Angeles, 2007 With Blood treatment (including kidney DVD Sale: $175 DVD Sale: $125 With Blood dialysis and chemotherapy), and Military checkpoints that lie between those trying to deliver it, and the villages and cities often prevent the obstacles they encounter by being movement of ambulances and the in an occupied territory... Useful to those studying the Palestinians, infirm, forcing critical cases to take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and treacherous bypass routes through global health care disparities. olive groves and over rocky, moun- Recommended." tainous terrain. Medics, ambulance - Educational Media Reviews Online drivers, and doctors negotiate these (EMRO) shiftings barries in order to deliver Center of Contemporary Arab Studies, care. Georgetown University, 2008 DVD Sale: $225 Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 4 ] [email protected], (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 www.twn.org [ 5 ] M IDDLE E ASTE rn D IASPO R A M IDDLE E ASTE rn D IASPO R A L E S T W E F ORGET F AROU K A B D E L 2004 election approached, Ralph Jason DaSilva, 2003, 80 min. MUTHI: POLITI C A L reflected on being a Palestinian and This documentary follows the PRISONER on voting for the first time, while the events post-9/11, examining the Konrad Aderer, 2003, 9 min. neighborhood chimed in. A short roundups and racial attacks that In April 2002, Farouk Abdel Muthi, a film that wrecks the western media occured in the name of national Palestine human rights activist was stereotype of Palestinians, and a security. The film contains stories arrested by the Justice Department display of a truly multicultural neigh- told by individuals who have felt on the basis of a 1995 deporta- borhood. Part of the Call for Change the severity of wartime racism in tion order. Partly because he was Series. a stateless Palestinian, the INS has America and explores the sullied Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Two Months to Home past in the hopes of creating been unable to deport him. Here, Modern Art, New York, 2007 lessons for a different future. Farouk tells his own story from Middle East Studies Association Film Festival, 2005 T W O MO N THS TO Passaic County Jail, and speaks "This important film connects the HOME out against the injustices inflicted on DVD Sale: $25 Janice Ahn, 2006, 8 min. alarming WWII internment of people Muslim immigrants since 9/11. Samira Rahman is an Afghan mother of Japanese descent with recent events where people of Arabic, S A J : who narrowly escaped death at the Middle East Studies Association Film South Asian and Muslim origin Festival, 2004 MUSLIM IN AMERI C A hands of the Taliban just before became the new 'enemy aliens'." Sam Pollard, 2005, 56 min. September 11, 2001. Upon arrival San Francisco International Asian DVD Sale: $125 Sajda Abdul-Rahim, a college in the United States, she is unduly American Film Festival student living in New York City, talks held in a makeshift detention center Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2004 about her religious upbringing as for two months. Her husband and World Premiere, International a Muslim and her quest for a less Documentary Festival of Amsterdam four children are elated and relieved (IDFA), 2003 traditional and more personal spiri- when she is finally released and tual connection with God. Part of allowed to remain in New York City. DVD Sale: $225 the Call for Change Series. Samira learns a hard lesson about Documentary Fortnight, Museum of life in the United States, the price of Modern Art, New York, 2007 immigration, and the importance of Middle East Studies Association Film Festival, 2005 finding strength in herself. Just Ralph DVD Sale: $25 "Ahn brings a human side to post- September 11, 2001 detentions" National Museum of Women in the Arts J U S T R A L P H Clifton Watson, 2005, 11 min. Association for Asian Studies Annual An alternately serious and humorous Meeting, 2007 "day in the life" of Ralph, a DVD Sale: $25 Palestinian-American grocery store owner, whose Brooklyn store is the neighborhood drop in center. As the Saj Lest We Forget [ 6 ] www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [email protected], (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 www.twn.org [ 7 ] M IDDLE E ASTE rn D IASPO R A M IDDLE E ASTE rn D IASPO R A I C A L L M Y SEL F P E R S I A N : I R A N I A N S I N A M E R I C A Tanaz Eshaghian & Sara Nodojoumi, 2002, 27 min.
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