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DESCRIPTION:        ARAB WOMEN’S FILM SERIES              Every other Tuesday @ 7pm   
                       at the              Arab Cultural and Community 
 Center                    Location: ACCC                          2 Plaza 
 St.                          San Francisco, CA,94116  Synopsis of Upcomming 
 Film: Four Women of Egypt  Dir. By Tahani Rached (90 min.)  "Four Women of 
 Egypt" is more than a film; it is an event, a public conversation. The four 
 women speak animatedly about the nation, politics, culture, and Islam. They 
 connect the politics and ideologies of past and present with the adhesive 
 of their own experience. The women saturate their conversations with humor, 
 that quintessentially Egyptian vernacular, and with irony, that most 
 delicious of deconstructive devices. They speak with refreshing candor and 
 hard-hitting honesty as they rake over the past and muddle through the 
 present.   The four are friends. They are nationalists and progressives; 
 one among them is a veiled Islamist. The women defy the stereotypical 
 notion that "fundamentalists" and "secularists" do not talk to each other, 
 that they do not have shared experiences or common concerns. They assault 
 the barriers of rigid ideologies. No wonder the film-deftly directed by 
 Tahani Rachid, a Montreal filmmaker who grew up in Egypt-has touched a 
 nerve in audiences in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, as well as in 
 the West.   
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                  SCHEDULE OF FILMS  All films will be shown every other 
 Tuesday  and will begin at 7pm. These films shed light on the struggles, 
 courage and accomplishments of Arab women living in the Arab world and the 
 United States.  For more information, please call the ACCC at: (415) 
 664-2200 or email us at:  outreach@arabculturalcenter.org    TUESDAY, MARCH 
 29th  1. “Umm Kulthum:  A Voice Like Egypt” (1996). Directed by Michael 
 Goldman and narrated by Omar Shariff (67 min.).  TUESDAY, APRIL 12th  2. 
 “Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon” (1986)  Directed by Jean Chamoun 
 and Mai Masri   (70 min.).  TUESDAY, APRIL 26th  3.  “Hollywood Harems” 
 (1999)  Directed by Tania-Kamal Eldin  (24 min.). “Benaat Chicago” Dir. 
 by Jennifer Canar & Mary Zerkel (30 min.).  TUESDAY,  MAY 3rd  4.      
 “Rachida” Country of origin Algeria (2003) Directed by Yamina Bachir- 
 Chouikh. RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MAY 24TH  TUESDAY, MAY 17th  5. “Four 
 Women of Egypt” (1997) Directed by Tahani Rached (90min.)  TUESDAY, MAY 
 31st.  6. “Ashiqat al-Cinema (Les Passionees du Cinema, Women Who Loved 
 Cinema)” Directed by Marianne Khoury (116 min.).    TUESDAY, JUNE 14th  
 7. “Covered: The Hejab in Egypt” (1995) Directed by Tania-Kamal 
 Eldin” (25 min.).  TUESDAY, JUNE 28th  8. “The Kite” Country of 
 origin, Lebanon (2003). Directed by Randal Sabbag (80min.).      \n 
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SUMMARY:Arab Women's Film Series
LOCATION:2 Plaza St.   San Francisco, Ca. 94116  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/11/65773.php
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