Professor As’ad Abukhalil, author of the “Angry Arab News Service” blog, discusses depictions of Arabs in recent Hollywood and independent films, including “Munich,” “Kingdom of Heaven,” and “Paradise Now.”
This lecture was recorded at the Seattle Arab and Iranian Film Festival, 2 April 2006.
For more information, visit:
www.saiff.com/ (Seattle Arab and Iranian Film Festival)
angryarab.blogspot.com/
Chapel Hill resident Tariq Nasir left a successful career in finance to find his voice as a filmmaker. He began with his family’s story of displacement. The Nasirs were forced to leave their home in Palestine in 1948, when the State of Israel was formed, and again in 1968 during the Six-Day War. Host Frank Stasio speaks to Tariq Nasir about home, hope, belonging and new beginnings.
For more information, visit:
wunc.org/tsot
www.belongingthefilm.com/
This podcast was produced by the British Museum’s Middle East Now season.
Director Elia Suleiman discusses the making of his film, ‘Divine Intervention.’ The story of ‘Divine Intervention’ follows the story of a man burdened with a sick father, a stalled screenplay and an unrequited love affair with a Palestinian woman whom he is forced to meet in a parking lot due to the Israeli checkpoint on the Nazareth-Ramallah road.
For more information, visit:
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/middleeastnow/
www.imdb.com/title/tt0274428/ (Divine Intervention at the Internet Movie Database)
This 2006 Cambridge Film Festival podcast features interviews with Caiomhe Butterly and director Katie Barlow.
For more information visit:
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/ (Official CFF site)
cff.libsyn.com (CFF Podcasts)
www.visitpalestine.info (Official film site)
On this podcast, we chat with Filmmaker Elle Flanders about her film Zero Degrees Of Separation which examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the tale of two couples — one gay and the other lesbian.
What makes the story so compelling is that each couple has one partner that is Israeli and one that is Palestinian.
This podcast was produced by the Cleveland Film Society.
For more information, visit:
clevelandfilm.org/
www.zerodegreesofseparation.com