Thursday, January 18, 6:30 PM EDT - in person at ICC Auditorium, 37th St NW and O Street NW Washington, DC

Gaza Ghetto: 40 Year Anniversary Screening

By Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

CCAS is pleased to host adjunct professor Joan Mandell for a film screening and discussion of her film Gaza Ghetto filmed in 1984.

“Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family 1948-1984” is the first feature documentary to portray daily life in Gaza within a political context. On the film’s 40th anniversary, Gaza Ghetto puts today’s headlines into historical perspective. It focuses on life under military occupation in Jabalia, the largest of all Palestinian refugee camps. A child is born and a child dies, and we come to understand the impact of decades of war and displacement on daily life and family rituals. We also meet Israelis personally involved: soldiers on patrol, settlers and government architects of the military occupation, Ariel Sharon, among them.

Gaza Ghetto (82 minutes) by PeA Holmquist, Joan Mandell and Pierre Bjorklund

Joan Mandell is a documentary filmmaker and oral historian. Co-director of the feature-length documentary, Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family 1948-84. A founding editor of Al Fajr, a Palestinian English-language newsweekly, and instructor at Birzeit University in the occupied Palestinian territories. She served for two decades on the editorial board of Middle East Report, and directed oral history and documentary projects at the Arab American National Museum. Now teaching at Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

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