documentaries
Iranian-American Terror Suspect To Screen Iran Film at NYU
Received this in the old INBOX. Iran. Breakdancing. The War on Terror. Looks like a good film. Let us know if you see it: Muslim-American filmmaker Justin Mashouf will be screening his feature documentary, “Warring Factions,” on March 25th as a part of the annual New York University Shuruq Festival. 24 year old Mashouf will [...]
Chronicles of a Refugee: Get it Now!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyXTW3bjyI] The long-awaited documentary, Chronicles of a Refugee, is now ready for purchase from the Palestine Online store or the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. This six-part series on the global Palestinian experience of displacement since Israel’s foundation is one of the most important documentaries about Palestinians to come out in some time. Why? [...]
NYC Screening of USA vs Al-Arian / Update of Case
For those of you in the New York City area, the critically-acclaimed documentary USA vs. Al-Arian is being shown at the Human Rights Watch 2008 International Film Festival this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Even if you can’t make it yourself, please invite your NY friends to attend. CASE UPDATE: Dr. Al-Arian is still in legal [...]
Madonna to save the world (again)
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), raised not too far from Dearbornistan Michigan, known artistically as Madonna… has decided to produce a documentary about the Zionist-Arab conflict. The project will provide her with another opportunity to both save the world and collaborate with her gardener/nanny/director friend, Nathan Rissman (again) via a highly-acclaimed documentary [...]
So Sue Me
Five Israeli reservists who took part in the incursion into and destruction of a large part of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 are suing the maker of a documentary for making them look bad. Jenin, Jenin director Mohammed Bakri testified that everything in the film is true. The litigants claimed that selective editing made [...]
The Unrecognized
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On Thanksgiving I went to the Naqab
This double rainbow greeted Haifa Thursday morning after the rainstorms. It stretched up from Haifa University and touches down here, in the middle of the chemical plant from which waft carcinogenic fumes for the noses of all who drive by. This was actually a Hezbollah target during the war in 2006- if a rocket hit [...]
Palestine: Peace not Apartheid book tour coming to a theater near you
Jimmy Carter documentary on way to theatersMon Aug 20, 2007By Gregg Goldstein NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Jimmy Carter is coming to movie theaters in a documentary centered on his controversial book about the Middle East. “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains” follows the former president on a recent promotional tour for “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” [...]
JESUS CHRIST! That’s a lot of hair…
On Sunday, July 15th, Fatah gunman Amjad Halawi came out of hiding in the West Bank city of Bethlehem after seven years of being on the run from Israel. According to the AP, “Halawi grew a thick mane of black hair well below his shoulders because he said he was too afraid to come out [...]
REEL BAD ARABS: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Based on Southern Illinois University professor Jack Shaheen’s book by the same name, the new documentary, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, discusses the treatment of Arabs in more than 900 films released between 1896 and 1999. Films included in the “worst” list (in alphabetical order): Back to the Future (1985), The Black [...]
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