Event info: Friday 27 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother’s return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a traditional Persian wedding and explore his lost heritage. But, when Alex’s Iranian-born parents and Heather’s conservative American father meet for the first time, cultures clash [...]
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Iran,
marriage,
Middle East
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Event info: Friday 10 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks, and mechanics and returned a year later as part of America’s first generation of female combat veterans. Despite an official government policy that states that women are not supposed to partake in direct ground combat, the five women featured here most certainly did. LIONESS, tells the story of [...]
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gender,
Middle East,
military,
peace,
trauma,
war
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