[WCUSP] Do your shopping for Palestinian DVDs online

[Tura Campanella Cook]

Hi all,

Yes, this is a great source for good films.  I saw several of them  
recently in a local film festival and highly recommend "The Iron Wall",  
"Sucha Normal Thing", "Beyond the Mirage", and "Private".  This was our  
entire festival, plus a cutting from "The Killing Zone" and a reading  
of "Rachel's Words" by four young women.  We had good publicity but a  
poor turnout.  Only about a fourth of the number that turned out to  
listen to "Other Jewish Voices,"a panel we in January.  There were  
Jewish voices speaking out in several of the films!  I think it is  
worth trying to get these films shown in other local film festivals,  
without "Palestinian" in the title of the event.  Folks who do not come  
on purpose to be informed, could be educated by accident.  Perhaps with  
other international films.

Best wishes,
Tura

On Apr 1, 2007, at 7:44 AM, JoanWDrake at aol.com wrote:

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> FILMS @ Palestine Online Store
> Films have proven extremely effective in presenting the realities of  
> the Palestinian situation and educating the public. Our selection of  
> 39 films and 1 photo CD-ROM are divided into 9 categories, as follows:
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> Feature Films (7) |  Gaza, Jenin, and Jerusalem (7) | Children (4) |  
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>  PHOTO CD-ROM
> This is Palestine
> George Azar
> An epic voyage through the historic Palestinian heartland, with  
> insightful commentary and more than 500 beautiful photographs by  
> veteran photojournalist George Azar. Travel beyond the headlines,  
> inside Palestine, and see this vibrant land as you've never seen it  
> before. A portion of the proceeds goes to students in the West Bank  
> and Gaza.
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> The Iron Wall  ***HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!***
> Mohammed Alatar, 2006, 52 minutes
> This eye-opening documentary exposes the Israel's colonization policy  
> and follows the timeline, size, population of the "settlements," and  
> their impact on the peace process. This film also touches on the  
> latest project to make the settlements a permanent fact on the ground;  
> the annexation Wall that  Israel is building in the West Bank, and its  
> impact on the Palestinian people.
> Click for more info...
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> The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands
> Andrew Courtney and Emily Perry, 2004, 43 minutes
> In this film, Palestinians from different walks of life are asked how  
> the wall affects them. They include a businessman from Abu Dis, a  
> young mother from Dheishe Refugee Camp, a music student from Ramallah,  
> a community center director from Jerusalem, a farmer from northern  
> Qalqilya, the director of the Stop the Wall campaign, and a member of  
> the African-Palestinian community.
> Click for more info...
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>  GENERAL OVERVIEWS
> Palestine Is Still The Issue
> John Pilger, 2002, 53 minutes
> In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and  
> Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. Pilger  
> continually asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was  
> affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still  
> caught in a terrible limbo -- refugees in their own land, controlled  
> by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. Pilger  
> says it is time to bring justice and peace to Palestine.
> Click for more info...
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> Palestine for Beginners
> Linda Bevis & Edward Mast, 2004, 72 minutes
> Filmed before a live audience and professionally edited, Palestine for  
> Beginners is a presentation by two American human rights activists who  
> have traveled many times to Palestine and explain the situation. The  
> presentation examines the background of the conflict, Zionism, 1948,  
> 1967, the situation today, occupation, equal rights and peace,  
> non-violence and resistance, and the one state vs. two state debate.
> Click for more info...
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> Sucha Normal Thing - A Simple Journey into the Israeli-Occupied West  
> Bank
> Rebecca Glotfelty, 2004, 80 minutes
> Capturing the voice of individual Palestinians, internationals, and  
> Israeli peace activists, "Sucha Normal Thing" documents untold stories  
> of ordinary people amidst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In an  
> attempt to deconstruct her preconceived visions, American filmmaker  
> Rebecca Glotfelty travels beyond mainstream news headlines into the  
> heart of the Israeli-occupied West Bank to experience first-hand one  
> of the most pressing conflicts of our time.
> Click for more info...
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> Beyond the Mirage - The Face of the Occupation
> David Neuneubel, 2002, 48 minutes
> The film discusses some of the major daily realities Palestinians  
> face: roadblocks, destruction of houses, military brutality. Powerful  
> insights are provided by interviews with Jessica Montel, Director of  
> B'Tselem, Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against Home  
> Demolitions, and Allegra Pacheco, an Israeli attorney who represents  
> Palestinians in Israeli military court and the Israeli Supreme Court.
> Click for more info...
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> Tragedy in the Holy Land - The Second Uprising
> Denis Mueler, 2002, 71 minutes
> "Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising" covers the origins of  
> the dispute between the people of this region and offers a rare look  
> at the confrontation from a Palestinian point of view, with profound  
> remarks and insight from Palestinians, Jews and other noted scholars.  
> The film addresses the core issues of land and identity, and probes  
> the evolution of the conflict from a historical perspective.
> Click for more info...
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> People and the Land
> Tom Hayes, 1997, 57 minutes
> "People and the Land" takes viewers into the universe of the occupied  
> people of Palestine, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based  
> on ethnicity. Challenging US foreign policy, this film examines the  
> concrete realities of  Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the  
> level of  US support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the  
> human cost of that aid in Palestine and the  US. The result is a  
> powerful and compelling portrayal of the situation that highlights the  
> human rights violations against the Palestinian community.
> Click for more info...
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> Checkpoint
> Tom Wright and Therese Saliba, 1997, 58 minutes
> Checkpoint portrays a side of the story little known to American  
> audiences: the devastating effects of the agreement on Palestinian  
> lives. With an engaging style and offbeat humor, the documentary  
> exposes shallow mass-media interpretations of the conflict and reveals  
> the immense imbalance of power between the two sides.
> Click for more info...
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>  FEATURE FILMS
> Private  NEW!
> Saverio Costanzo, 2004, 90 minutes
> The Israeli army decides to seize a Palestinian family's home,  
> confining them to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room  
> at night. Mohammad refuses to leave this home and, reinforced by his  
> principles against violence, decides to find a way to keep his family  
> together in the house until the Israeli soldiers move on.
> Click for more info...
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> Paradise Now
> Hany Abu-Assad, 2005, 90 minutes
> “PARADISE NOW” is the story of two young Palestinian men as they  
> embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. On a typical  
> day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where daily life grinds on amidst  
> crushing poverty and the occasional rocket blast, we meet two  
> childhood best friends who are selected to do a suicide bombing.
> Click for more info...
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> Rana's Wedding
> Hany Abu-Assad, 2002, 90 minutes
> Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints  
> in-between, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad (Ford Transit) sees  
> the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the eyes of a young woman  
> who, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around  
> roadblocks, soldiers, stonethrowers, overworked officials ... and into  
> the heart of an elusive lover.
> Click for more info...
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> Divine Intervention
> Elia Suleiman, 2002, 92 minutes
> In this darkly comic masterpiece, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman  
> utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to craft an intense,  
> hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and  
> nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times.
> Click for more info...
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> like twenty impossibles
> Annemarie Jacir, 2004, 17 minutes
> Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military  
> checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew averts a closed checkpoint  
> by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and  
> the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of  
> military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative, like twenty  
> impossibles wryly questions artistic responsibility and the politics  
> of filmmaking, while speaking to the fragmentation of a people.
> Click for more info...
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> Tale of the Three Jewels
> Michel Khleifi, 1995, 107 minutes
> This feature film tells the story of Yussef, a twelve-year-old boy who  
> lives in an imaginary world of his own and often escapes from the  
> surrounding violence to the beautiful Gaza countryside. One day he  
> meets a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he falls in love. When Yussef  
> declares his intention of marrying her when they grow up, she tells  
> him that he must first find three jewels missing from her  
> grandmother’s necklace, which was brought from South America by her  
> grandfather.
> Click for more info...
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> The Dupes
> Tawfik Saleh, 1972, 107 minutes
> This black and white film traces the destinies of three Palestinian  
> refugees brought together by dispossession, despair and hope for a  
> better future. The setting is Iraq in the 1950's and the protagonists,  
> concealed in the steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their way  
> across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful  
> adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's acclaimed novella, Men Under the Sun,  
> The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the  
> Palestinian predicament.
> Click for more info...
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>  GAZA, JENIN, AND JERUSALEM
> Arna's Children
> Juliano Mer Khamis, 2003, 84 minutes
> Five years after his mother's death, Juliano Mer Khamis returns to the  
> Jenin refugee camp to discover what happened to the children's theater  
> group she founded. Shifting back and forth in time, Mer Khamis's film  
> juxtaposes the sweet-faced young boys with the militants and martyrs  
> they become. "Arna's Children" reveals the tragedy and horror of young  
> lives trapped by the circumstances of occupation.
> Click for more info...
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> Gaza Strip
> James Longley, 2002, 74 minutes
> Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following the election  
> of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major  
> armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The  
> film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without  
> narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary  
> Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. More observation  
> than political argument, Gaza Strip offers a rare look inside the  
> stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military  
> occupation.
> Click for more info...
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> Gaza Ghetto  - Portrait of a Palestinian Family (also covers refugee  
> issues)
> PeA Holmquist, Joan Mandell, Pierre Bjorklund, 1984, 82 minutes
> Even as the political status of Gaza and the West Bank evolve, the  
> uncertainties and harshness of land confiscations and military  
> occupation remain key. Produced in 1984, this classic explores the  
> very issues that caused the intifada and continue to this very day.  
> Moments of tragedy and joy are intercut with scenes of Israeli  
> politicians, soldiers. Abu El-Adel's grandchildren listen intently to  
> their heritage, anticipating their future from their past.
> Click for more info...
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> Gaza Under Siege
> Gazans bear the brunt of Israel's determination to quash the uprising.  
> The film focuses on one refugee family trying to cope. Already poor,  
> the family has reached breaking point, and wonders how long life can  
> go on with no solution in sight. Raji Sourani, a human rights lawyer,  
> asks why the international commmunity shies away from its  
> responsibilities and fails to criticize Israel's aggression and the  
> denial of the Palestinians' rights.
> Click for more info...
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> Jenin Jenin  (also covers refugee issues)
> Mohamed Bakri, 2002, 54 minutes
> Filmed shortly following Israel's April 2002 attack on the Jenin  
> refugee camp, this documentary includes testimony from the survivors  
> of the camp. A large section of the camp was flattened and scores of  
> Palestinians were killed. Numerous cases of war crimes have been  
> documented by Palestinians as well as international human rights  
> groups. "Jenin Jenin" shows the extent to which the prolonged  
> oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the  
> Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
> Click for more info...
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> Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?
> Marty Rosenbluth, 1995, 55 minutes
> Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects of Israel's  
> urban planning policies that, according to many, aim to uproot the  
> Palestinian presence in the Holy City. The documentary is a tribute to  
> the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access  
> to life's most basic amenities.
> Click for more info...
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> Jerusalem 1948: Youm Ilak ou Youm Aleik
> Leon Willems and Tinus Kramer, 1998, 45 minutes
> The film aims, on the one hand, to explain the historical complexity  
> of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 while also providing insight into the  
> diversity of Palestinian refugee experiences since then. Palestinian  
> eyewitnesses and experts, now refugees living in refugee camps,  
> villages and cities in Palestine,  Jordan and the  USA tell the story  
> of their lives in pre-1948 Jerusalem.
> Click for more info...
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> Also see:
> Rana's Wedding  (under "Feature Films")
> Tale of the Three Jewels (under "Feature Films")
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>  CHILDREN
> Frontiers of Dreams and Fears  (also covers refugee issues)
> Mai Masri, 2002, 53 minutes
> Shot during the liberation of South Lebanon and the beginning of the  
> Al Aqsa Intifada, "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears" accompanies two  
> young girls on an extraordinary journey to the borders of exile, which  
> separate them from each other and from their homeland.
> Click for more info...
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> Children of Shatila  (also covers refugee issues)
> Mai Masri, 2002, 53 minutes
> With a focus on the lives of children in the Shatila refugee camp on  
> the outskirts of Beirut, this documentary examines the  
> Israeli-Palestinian conflict, life in the refugee camps, and the  
> lasting effects of war.
> Click for more info...
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> Children of Fire
> Mai Masri, 1990, 50 minutes
> When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a  
> fourteen year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian  
> fighters: the children of the Intifada. "Children of Fire" captures  
> their courageous story on film and paints a daring portrait of the  
> Palestinian uprising.
> Click for more info...
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> The Children of Ibdaa - To Create Something Out of Nothing
> S. Smith Patrick, 2002, 29 minutes
> This documentary shows how members of the dance troupe from Dheisheh  
> refugee camp use their performance to express the history, struggle,  
> and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the fight to  
> return to their homeland. The film offers insight into their families’  
> displacement from their villages, the physically and emotionally  
> stressful aspects of life in a refugee camp, and the unique experience  
> of participating in the politically motivated dance troupe.
> Click for more info...
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> Also see:
> Tale of the Three Jewels (under "Feature Films")
> Gaza Strip (under "Gaza, Jenin, Jerusalem")
> Jenin Jenin (under "Gaza, Jenin, Jerusalem")
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>  REFUGEES
> until when...
> Dahna Abourahme, 2004, 76 min
> Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four  
> Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.  
> They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow,  
> frustration and hope. "until when..." paints an intimate in-depth  
> portrait of Palestinian lives today.
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> Click for more info...
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> Waiting To Go
> Di Tatham, 2001, 27 minutes
> This program from the City Life series is set in Lebanon, where  
> (according to the UN) there are three hundred seventy-five thousand  
> Palestinian refugees. Palestinians are unwanted in  Israel, but in  
> war-torn, sectarian Lebanon, among fellow Arabs, they hardly fare  
> better, and most live in poverty. Barred from working, they also have  
> limited access to medical care and higher education. Many have been in  
>  Lebanon for over fifty years.
> Click for more info...
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> 500 Dunam on the Moon
> Rachel Leah Jones, 2002, 48 minutes
> Ayn Hawd is a Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by  
> Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In 1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian  
> painter and a founder of the Dada movement, helped transform the  
> village into a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod. This  
> documentary tells the story of the village's original inhabitants,  
> who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying  
> hills.
> Click for more info...
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> Also see:
> Gaza Ghetto  - Portrait of a Palestinian Family (under "Gaza, Jenin,  
> Jerusalem")
> Jenin Jenin (under "Gaza, Jenin, Jerusalem")
> Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (under "Children")
> Children of Shatila (under "Children")
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>  EDUCATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW & MEDIA
> A Caged Bird's Song
> Sobhi Zobaidi, 2003, 30 minutes
> Almost one third of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are  
> school and university students. Under Israeli occupation Palestinian  
> education has been a constant struggle rather than a basic right. This  
> film examines the more recent history of that struggle during   
> Israel's current war of attrition on the civilian population under its  
> control.
> Click for more info...
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> In The Name of Security
> Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, 2002, 27 minutes
> In May of 2002, a delegation from the National Lawyers Guild traveled  
> throughout the West Bank to investigate allegations of war crimes by  
> the Israeli military. What the delegation found was a state-sponsored  
> campaign aimed at destroying the identity and culture of the  
> Palestinian people. This film documents what they saw. Through  
> interviews and documentation of destroyed cities and impassable  
> checkpoints, the video describes a brutal occupation designed to  
> prevent statehood.
> Click for more info...
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> Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
> Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally, 2003, 80 minutes
> This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of  
> American political elites--working in combination with Israeli public  
> relations strategies--exercise a powerful influence over news  
> reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and  
> British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and  
> political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an  
> examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in  
> turn, American public opinion.
> Click for more info...
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> TV's Promised Land
> Nicholas Dembowski, 2003, 75 minutes
> A clever montage of found footage from Hollywood movies, cable news  
> networks, European news broadcasts, American Westerns, etc. The  
> accumulated evidence powerfully asserts that Western media has long  
> demonized a catch-all "Arab/Muslim world" via selective coverage and  
> dehumanizing imagery that boosts the "good vs. evil" rhetoric of  
> politicians and pundits.
> Click for more info...
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>  PERSONALITIES
> Naji Al-Ali, An Artist with Vision
> Kasim Abid, 1999
> Interviews with leading Arab journalists and poets, former jail mates,  
> his wife and others give us insight to his unrelenting commitment to  
> his people, and into his subtly satirical cartoons that stirred the  
> hearts of millions of refugees. This film examines the forces that  
> shaped Naji as an artist, as a human being, and shows how his  
> experiences mirror those of other exiled Palestinians.
> Click for more info...
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> Rachel - An American Conscience
> Yahya Barakat, 2005
> This documentary offers rare footage of Rachel talking to a camera and  
> describing Israeli human rights violations against a Palestinian  
> civilian population. The film opens with grim images of dinasaur-like  
> Caterpillar bulldozers turning urban Rafah into a garbage pile of  
> destroyed buildings. It continues with interviews of Rachel's fellow  
> International Solidarity Movement volunteers, and concludes with  
> comments from her parents.
> Click for more info...
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> A Portrait of Edward Said
> Emmanuel Hamon, 2002, 54 minutes
> This intimate documentary offers a glimpse at some of Edward Said's  
> final reflections on the themes that dominated his life's work. Known  
> as one of  America's great contemporary intellectuals and a prominent  
> spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the  United States, Said  
> died in September of 2003 at the age of 67. Shortly before his death,  
> a French film crew spent several weeks with him and his family.
> Click for more info...
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> Mahmoud Darwich: As the Land Is the Language
> Simone Bitton, 1997, 60 minutes
> This film, which follows Darwich from the Cisjordanian desert to Paris  
> via Cairo and Beirut, tracing the path of his exile from Israel, sets  
> out to understand this popular fervor and share the emotion distilled  
> by Darwich’s words and inimitable rhythm. It not only allows the  
> viewer to appreciate his work in its totality, but also places it in a  
> political, historical and cultural context.
> Click for more info...
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> Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time
> Mai Masri, 1995, 50 minutes
> In this very personal portrait, Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri  
> profiles Hanan Ashrawi, exploring how she manages to juggle her  
> responsibilities as political activist, writer and mother - against  
> the backdrop of challenges facing the Palestinians in the struggle to  
> build a viable state.
> Click for more info...
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