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The Middle Eastern Roundtable and Documentary Series is underway this week and features guest speaker Livia Alexander, an expert in Middle Eastern cinema and a film curator for ArteEast in New York City. All events are in Thompson Hall room 101, are free, and open to the public, English Professor Iclal Vanwesenbeeck announced.
The series opens Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in with the roundtable discussion led by Ms. Alexander on the Middle Eastern Documentary in the Twenty-First Century, followed by the screening of the film, “The Play.” "Enlightening," "touching," and "inspiring" are the three words that best describe "The Play"/"Oyun" by Turkish director Pelin Esmer. Her unique documentary introduces us to nine fascinating peasant women who, after a lifetime of hardships due to their gender, have shaken up their village and other places in their country by performing bold political theater about their lives.
“The One Man Village” will be screened Thursday, Nov. 4 at 8:30 p.m.
Two films, “Afghan Star," about an Afghani television series modeled after "American Idol," and “Kaloucha,” a documentary about Moncef Kaloucha, a Tunisian Ed Wood who makes insanely cheap and insanely bad action movies (such as ''Tarzan Of The Arabs") and distributes them himself, will be screened Friday, Nov. 5., starting at 7:30 p.m.
