Council on Middle East Studies: Syrian Film Sampler: The Nights of the Jackal

Event time: 
Friday, August 29, 2014 - 1:00pm
Location: 
Ives Main Library See map
133 Elm Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on Middle East Studies presents:

NHFPL Syrian Film Sampler:  The Nights of the Jackal (1990, Directed by Abdulatif Abdulhamid, Arabic with English subtitles). A comic/serious depiction of village life, centered on a peasant patriarch whose control is disintegrating as he relies upon his wife’s whistling to keep jackals at bay.

Discussion will be facilitated by R. M. Khoury, Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History, Fairfield University.

Special thanks to Arab Film Distribution, City of New Haven Peace Commission, Greater New Haven Peace Council, Promoting Enduring Peace and the Yale Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center for making this series possible.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public