{"id":1404,"date":"2015-03-20T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:26:21","slug":"film-screening-the-dupes-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/film-screening-the-dupes-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Film screening: the Dupes (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islamic Studies Library will hold its last film screening of the academic year on Friday April 10th, 2015 at 5 p.m. in the Tuesday Night Cafe (Morrice Hall, room 017).<\/p>\n

\"the_dupes\"<\/a>The Dupes<\/em> is a stark, beautifully photographed black and white film tracing\u00a0the destinies of three palestinian refugees brought together by\u00a0dispossession, despair and hope for a better future.<\/p>\n

The setting is Iraq in the 1950s and the protagonists,concealed in the steel\u00a0tank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait,\u00a0the \u201cpromised land.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dupes<\/em> is considered a masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani\u2019s acclaimed novella, Men\u00a0Under the Sun<\/em>, The Dupes<\/em> is also one of the first Arab films to address the\u00a0Palestinian predicament.<\/p>\n

Professor Malek Abisaab, McGill History Department and Institute of Islamic Studies, will moderate the post screening discussion.<\/p>\n

Come on come all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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