Guild & CCA to Host NM Middle East Film Festival

From the NM Middle East Community Cultural Alliance:

New Mexico Middle East Film Festival
October 7-13 at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque
and October 8-9 at the CCA in Santa Fe.

Presented by the NM Middle East Community Cultural Alliance including New Mexico Humanities Council, Religious Studies Program and Media Arts Departments at UNM, Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, Gray Panthers, Arab-Jewish Peace Alliance, New Mexico Conference of Churches, People Before Profit Film Series, student groups and other community partners.

Films covering the entire region including: Palestine/Israel, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, and Jordan.

Films on culture, politics, gender issues, media, Arab-American experience, spirituality, history and art/music including:

• Al Jazeera
• Occupations of Iraq and Palestine in Baghdad, Fallujah, Jenin, Gaza, Dheisheh, Jerusalem
• Umm Kulthum and Fairuz
• Nasser, Andulasia/Arab Influence, History of Middle East
• Edward Said and Hanan Ashrawi
• Israeli peace activists
• Spirituality
• Feature Films and Classics
• Student life and student films

National Speakers and Film Directors:

• Jess Ghannam, Filmmaker and Psychoanalyst, Producer Until When..., San Francisco, CA
• Mona Mikhail, Professor of Middle East Studies, Film Producer, Live on Stage: A Century and a Half of Theatre in Egypt, NYU, New York City, NY
• Garrett Scott, Film Producer & Director, Occupation: Dreamland, San Francisco, CA
• Jennifer Moore, UNM Professor of Law and Peace Studies Program, Albuq., NM
• Riad Hamad, Palestine Children's Welfare Fund, Austin, TX

Tickets available now at The Guild, CCA and Page One. Visit our website online at: https://www.nmmecca.com for more information, film schedules, ticket prices, etc. or call 255-2067.