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Lady Kul el-Arab
ליידי
כל
אל-
ערב
Saturday, March 20, 8:30 pm
Mitchell Auditorium
Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center
3128 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
When ambitious seventeen-year-old Doaa "Angelina"
Fares decides to be the first Druze woman to enter the 2007 Miss
Israel beauty pageant, her sudden fame clashes with the traditional
Druze community. A deluge of insults, accusations and threats to her
safety culminate in the arrest of five men, among them two of her
uncles, for plotting her murder. Their broad media coverage spirals
Doaa and her supportive family toward an inevitable choice to either
pursue Doaa's dream or to honor their community. Personal and
provocative, this film represents conflicting standards of beauty,
success, and duty for women everywhere.
Israel, 2008, 56 minutes. Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Ibtisam Mara'ana
Awards: Best Documentary Award at Sole & Luna
International Documentary Film Festival, Palermo, Italy, 2009; Best Documentary at Zagreb International
Documentary
Film Festival, Croatia, 2009; Best Directing Award at
New Delhi
International Women Film Festival, India, 2008; Special
Jury Award
at IDFA Silver Wolf Competition, The Netherlands, 2008
Guest Speaker: Dalle Abu Rukun, wife of Deputy
Consul General of Israel . Dalle will present her perspective of an Arab-Israeli Druze living in Israel.
Tickets: $10 - General admission, $8 – Seniors
Please join us for a dessert reception following the screening.
Students: Reserve your free tickets online. Make sure to pick them up an hour before the screening, otherwise the reservation will expire. On the day of the show, tickets will be available at the box office starting one hour before the screening.
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