Screening of Sleepless in Gaza and Jerusalem

Submitted by Ramah on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:22am
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Date: 
Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location : 
DC

American University
Ward Circle Building, Room 1
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Metro: Red Line Tenleytown/AU stop

Sponsored by : Amnesty International USA 

"To show the reality of life under occupation, film crews follow several young Palestinian women throughout the occupied territories for 90 days as they go about their daily lives . . . It’s a direct, unfiltered and unpolished depiction of life in Palestine . . .While the show doesn’t go out of its way to be political, it remains heavily so because life under a foreign military occupation is inherently and unavoidably political. What this series offers is a bette r grasp on what it really feels like to live everyday under the occupation.” (Omar Badder, The Huffington Post , April 30, 2010)

Watch some clips from the documentary.

Moderator:
Dr. Mohammed Abu Nimer

Panelists:
Shelley Cohen Fudge, Chair of Jewish Voice for Peace in the DC region
Edith Garwood, Amnesty International
Mitch Plitnick, B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Drew Poe, Independent Journalist.

Other speakers: Tom Block (Producer of the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival); Abdallah Schleifer (Executive Producer, Sleepless in Gaza); Ramzi Khoury (Director, Sleepless in Gaza); and one of the subjects of the film, Ashira