Nov 12 2024

Film: A Feeling Greater Than Love شعور أكبر من الحب

Nadi Al-Cinema (Film Series)

November 12, 2024

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location

BSB 153

Address

1007 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607

Off white flier with thick green border that looks like a film reel left and right of page. Top of the page has a small film reel in green and white. Top right there is a film clapper in green, red, and white. A film spool and reel in red and off white is on the bottom left. Three framed boxes with black border include text about film screenings in red and green.

Join the Global Middle East Studies Minor, the Department of History, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Arab American Cultural Center in a film screening and discussion of:

A Feeling Greater than Love  شعور أكبر من الحب

Screening will be followed with a discussion with the director, Mary Jirmanus Saba.

In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and Gandour chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution, and with it women’s emancipation, were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt, asking of the past how we might transform the present.

More about Mary Jirmanus Saba

Space is accessible by wheelchair.

Contact

Arab American Cultural Center

Date posted

Oct 16, 2024

Date updated

Oct 16, 2024