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Public Invitation - “Memories” Play and “Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel" Advance Screening - Al-Midan Theater/Haifa

For Immediate Release

No. (E/23/04)

22 June 2004



The public is invited to two cultural events organized in the framework of the fourth BADIL Expert Forum on the Palestinian Refugee Question hosted in Haifa by the Emil Touma Institute (ETI) and the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (ADRID).

 

Friday, 2 July, 20:00, al-Midan Theater:

 

“Memories,”

a play by Palestinian author and actor Salman Natour

Director: Adeeb Jahshan

(70 minutes; Arabic with Hebrew and English translation).

 

“Memories” is a chronicle of a Palestinian writer trying to represent the memory of his people that he shares in stories that link memories of the author with the collective Palestinian memory. The play is based on two of Natour’s books dealing with the Palestinian historical narrative: “Chronicle of the Sheikh with the Wrinkled Face” (1983), and “Did You Kill Somebody There?” (2000).

 

Admission: NIS 50 (to serve as a donation to the ETI).

 

 

Saturday, 3 July 19:30, al-Midan Theater:

 

Advance screening:

“Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel,

Part 3:  To the North”

Filmed in the summer of 2002, by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi

 

The complete four and a half hour documentary follows the virtual line of the 1947 plan for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states laid out in United Nations Resolution 181. 

 

Part 3 begins north of Jerusalem and follows the proposed partition line via Kalkylia, Tulkarem, the Jezreel Valley and depopulated/destroyed Palestinian Arab villages to the Lebanese frontier.  The film traces a border that never actually existed and looks at life of Palestinian Arabs and Jews today who live along this theoretical boundary.

 

Admission free

 

For more information on “Route 181”, see:

www.momento-production.com/route-181-gb/index.htm

www.sindibad.co.uk/newsletter/indexBorbourgeng.htm

 


Al-Midan Theater, 2 Khouri St., Haifa.

For further details contact:

Sylvia Shalev (ETI), tel. 04-8553550 or 054-944-994.