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Hopkins Students for a Free Palestine and
the Middle Eastern Students Association present:

Sinan Antoon, filmmaker of "About Baghdad", in a discussion about his documentary with screening of long excerpts from the film

Date: Thursday, April 8th 2004

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Hall Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus

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The new documentary film, about the return of Antoon to Iraq after years of forced exile, was shot on location in Baghdad in July 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the war and occupation of Iraq. About Baghdad (www.aboutbaghdad.com) gives voice to the people of Iraq; voices that have been silenced, marginalized and ignored during more than three decades of tyranny and that are now not presented in major media outlets.


The trailer of the movie was presented last semester at Hopkins; however, Antoon was not present. The movie has been recently released and gives an independent picture about the situation in post-war Iraq, prompting Tariq Ali, author of "The Clash of Fundamentalisms" and "Bush in Babylon", to say about the movie:

"In these bad times when Western television networks, with few exceptions, have become an instrument of imperial propaganda, independent documentary films are needed more than ever before.

This affecting film shot in post-occupation Baghdad privileges the people of Iraq and they have a great deal to say about both Saddam Hussein's rule and the US occupation. These are courageous voices rarely heard on Western television. Listen to them carefully. These are the people on whom Iraq depends for its future."