Event
Film screening: The Dupes
Friday, April 10, 2015 17:00to19:00
Morrice Hall
Tuesday Night Café, Room 017, 3485 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E1, CA
The Dupes is a stark, beautifully photographed black and white film tracing the destinies of three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession, despair and hope for a better future.
The setting is Iraq in the 1950s and the protagonists, concealed in the steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the “promised land.”
A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s acclaimed novella, Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
Post Screening discussion with Professor Malek Abisaab from the Institute of Islamic Studies & McGill History Department
Presented by the Islamic Studies Library
