When   Wednesday, November 11, 2009   Time   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  
Where   University Library Video Theatre, 2nd Floor South Tower 1970 Campus Drive   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Amanda Petra Caverzasi  
Group   Comparative Literary Studies Program

Ain Shams is a film about a girl called Shams whose parents discover she has cancer. But Ain Shams is also the name of a poor neighborhood in Cairo where the film is in large part set. Childhood cancer, in El Batout’s hand, turns out to be not only a heart wrenching ex­perience but also a politically charged topic. The film has just won the best film prize at the San Francisco Arab Film Festival.

Professor Brian Edwards (English and CLS) will briefly introduce the film by discussing the filmmaker's previous work as a war documentarian, and the film's the strange history in its struggle with the Egyptian censor before finally reaching the screen.

The film is 90 minutes long and space is limited as the film will be showed in the Video Theatre on the second floor of the South Tower, University Library.