Middle East Film Festival Offers Cinematic Tours to Region

UALR’s Middle Eastern Studies will present an opportunity to visit the Middle East through film at the four-day UALR Middle Eastern Film Festival beginning today. The Feb. 25 to 28 festival will offer a wide variety of feature films and documentaries featuring the people and country of Algeria, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iran, and more. All films will be shown between 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Room A of the Donaghey Student Center. The festival is free and open to the public. For more information, call 501.569.8322 or email [email protected]. The schedule of films and times shown are: MONDAY, Feb. 25:

• 1:30 p.m. Introduction, Welcome to the Film Festival
• 1:40 p.m. Desperado Square (Israel)
• 3:15 p.m. Lecture and Discussion about Middle Eastern Film by Dr. Joel Gordon of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
• 4:15 p.m.  The Borders (Syria)
• 6:15 p.m.  West Beirut (Lebanon)

TUESDAY, Feb. 26: Love in the Land of Conflict

• 1:10 p.m. West Bank Story (Israel/Palestine)
• 1:40 p.m. The Syrian Bride (Israel/Syria)
• 3:30  The Children of Ibdaa (Palestine)
• 4:10  Zero Degrees of Separation (Israel/Palestine)
• 6:00  West Bank Story (Israel/Palestine)
• 6:30  Divine Intervention (Palestine)

WEDNESDAY, Feb 27: War and Innocence Lost

• 1 p.m.  The Children of Ibdaa (Palestine)
• 1:40 p.m.  Turtles Can Fly (Kurdish Iraq)
• 3:30 p.m.  West Bank Story (Israel/Palestine)
• 4 p.m. Gaza Strip (Palestine)
• 5:30 p.m.  The Battle of Algiers (Algeria/Italy)

THURSDAY, Feb 28:  Navigating Culture

• 1:10 p.m. West Bank Story (Israel/Palestine)
• 1:40 p.m. The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman (Yemen)
• 3:05 p.m. A New Day in Old Sanaa (Yemen)
• 4:40 p.m. Gabbeh (Iran)
• 6 p.m. The Bandit (Turkey)