"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/>