[Peace-discuss] Fw: "Rana's Wedding" - 2p Sun Nov 10 @ Spurlock Museum (Knight Auditorium)

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Fyi...

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From: "Hoffman, Valerie J" <vhoffman at illinois.edu>
To: "Hoffman, Valerie J" <vhoffman at illinois.edu> 
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 6:08 PM
Subject: "Rana's Wedding" Sunday at 2




Dear faculty, students and friends of CSAMES [Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies],
 
I hope you will make a great movie part of your weekend!  Rana’s Wedding, released in 2002, depicts a 17-year-old Palestinian girl in Jerusalem faced with the need to marry quickly in order to avoid moving with her father to Egypt.  She has only a few hours to find her boyfriend (who doesn’t answer his cellphone), locate a registrar to draw up the marriage contract, and persuade the official to override her father’s objections and agree to perform the ceremony by a 4 p.m. deadline.  Hurdling the barriers of roadblocks, underpaid and overworked government workers, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian stone-throwers, the film portrays, as The New York Times’s Stephen Holden wrote, “the frustrating experience of living under a state of siege and the difficulty of carrying on the semblance of normal life in such circumstances.” Directed by Hany Abu-Assad and featuring Clara Khoury in the starring role, the film won the Grand Prize at the 2002
 Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival (with Clara Khoury winning the Best Actress award at the same event), the Golden Antigone award at the 2002 Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, the Golden Anchor award at the 2003 Haifa International Film Festival, and the Nestor Almendros award for courage in filmmaking at the 2003 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.  
 
The film will be shown on Sunday, November 10 at 2 pm in Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana (just east of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts).  Admission is free.  I hope to see you there!
 
All the best,
 
Valerie J. Hoffman
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religion
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
221 International Studies Building, MC-489
910 S. Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Telephone: 217-333-0953
www.csames.illinois.edu
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