Women Beyond Borders

Barcode: 58946997 Call Number: V-ARA 040 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 58 min. Date: c2003 System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Region 1 Language: Arabic Creator: Directed by Jean Chamoun Description: In WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS, acclaimed director Jean Chamoun (In the Shadows of the City) looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army. Collection: Language Resource Center