SCREENING: Forget Baghdad

SCREENING: Forget Baghdad
Friday 24 April, 6.30pm

Dir Samir Jamal Al Din
Free Screening - RSVP Essential

A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "Jew" and "Arab" through one hundred years of film, contrasted with the history of Jewish communists from Iraq. The protagonists are Shimon Ballas, a writer and professor of Arabic studies in Tel Aviv and Paris; the best-selling Israeli author Sami Michael from Haifa; Moshe Houri, a former dealer in real estate; writer Samir Naqqash who only publishes in the Arabic language and Ella Shohat, a Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in New York who has written a standard text on the Israeli film industry.

Doors: 6.30pm
Screening: 7.00pm
Run time: 1hr 52mins

SCREENING AS PART OF:
VOICES FROM EXILE
Koutaiba Al Janabi
Sadiq Kareem Toma
Yamam Nabeel
with films by Samir Jamal al Din

The inaugural exhibition at
ART FORWARD GALLERY

12-14 Whitfield Street
London W1T 2RF