Israel’s War Against Palestine: Documenting the Military Occupation of Palestinian and Arab Lands

Julian Schnabel’s Miral (video)

14 March 2011

Julian Schnabel’s Miral – Trailer
Stars Freida Pinto, Willam Dafoe, Hiam Abbass and Vanessa Redgrave.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ck96h97y9Vs

To the displeasure of Israeli officials, the full film was shown today at the headquarters in New York.  Read about it in Haaretz

Based on the novel by Rula Jebreal, the movie revolves around a real-life orphanage established by a Palestinian woman (Abbass) following the 1948 creation of the Israeli state. (Pinto) was sent to the orphanage in 1978. When, later in life, she goes to teach at a refugee camp and falls for an activist, Miral is torn between resistance and education as separate paths to political change.

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