PUBLIC INVITATION
Under the Sponsorship of the Bethlehem Governorate
ISIS for Audio-Visual Production in cooperation with BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights
are honored to invite you to attend the first public screening of the film:
"The Tear of Peace"
The film presents a personal account of the multiple displacement and struggle of Palestinian refugees told by the members of the al-Mughrabi family. Following their 1948 eviction from home and land in al-Burayj village [Cf. <http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jerusalem/al-Burayj/>] now located in Israel, the family found shelter in the Deheisheh refugee camp (Bethlehem) [Cf. <http://www.badil.org/Images/Campaign/Deheishe/deheish.htm>] until the 1967 war. Then family members joined the Palestinian resistance movement and were forced to relocate to Amman (Jordan), then on to Syria and to the Ein al-Hilweh camp (Lebanon) [Cf. <http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/PRRN/papers/ajial_center/ngo_lebanon.html>], where the couple raised their four children until their home was demolished by the Israeli invasion army in 1982. Their journey continued to the Sudan and Libya, until they were able to return to the Deheisheh camp in the framework of the Oslo process in 1995. The al-Mughrabi family tells the story about how the Israeli occupation brought to fail all their stubborn efforts to achieve personal security and stability from then on: broken dreams about a good education, the second intifada, the killing of their son Mahmoud [Cf. <http://www.between-lines.org/archives/2001/dec/Saleh_El_Masri.htm>], a resistance fighter, the demolition of the family home in the Deheisheh camp [Cf. <http://www.amnesty.org.au/whatshappening/israel/report6.html>], and the arrest of their eldest son Ahmad [Cf. <http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Other%20Updates/israeli_forces_enter_bethlehem.htm>]. "It is still the same enemy," says the father, Abu Ahmad, "the same enemy in 1948, 1982 and in 2002."
Produced by: ISIS Directed by: George Mussleh
The screening will take place at the Catholic Action Center in Bethlehem Monday, 17th March 2003, at 4:00 pm.
Your attendance will support peace and justice!
For additional information about this film, please contact: Shadi Khair, ISIS Public Relations and Marketing Director Telefax: 00972-2-277 4405; 00972-52-466 366 (mobile) Email: isispro at email.com <http://isispro.tripod.com> ------------------------------------------------
BADIL Resource Center aims to provide a resource pool of alternative, critical and progressive information on the question of Palestinian refugees in our quest to achieve a just and lasting solution for exiled Palestinians based on their right of return. PO Box 728, Bethlehem, Palestine; Email: info at badil.org; Website: www.badil.org; Tel/fax: -2-2747346; -52-360769
-- Yoshie
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