[R-G] Thu., Jan. 23: Jenin Jenin

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Screening: _Jenin Jenin_
(Dir. Mohamed Bakri, 2002)

"Where is God," an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the 
debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin.

The film, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director 
Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the 
Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and 
camp were the scenes of fierce fighting. The operation ended with 
Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well 
as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war 
crimes in the April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. _Jenin Jenin_ 
shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has 
affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.

Banned in Israel, _Jenin Jenin_ is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the 
producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting 
of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged 
Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed 
area with three friends.

Date & Time: Thursday, January 23, 7:30 PM
Location: 300 Journalism Building, OSU, 242 W.18th Ave., Columbus, OH

free & open to public

Sponsors: Al-Awda-Ohio; Citizens for Fair Legislation; the Committee 
for Justice in Palestine; Social Welfare Action Alliance; and the 
Student International Forum

Websites: <groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio/>, <cflweb.org>, 
<www.osudivest.org>, & <www.osu.edu/students/sif>
Campus Map: <www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>

Download the flyer at 
<http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/jenin.pdf>.
-- 
Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: 
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
* Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
* Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>