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"The Soil and the Sea: A Film Screening"
The Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics is excited to announce a screening of The Soil and the Sea directed by Daniele Rugo, followed by a Q&A with the director and producer Carmen Abou Jaoude.
The Soil and the Sea unveils the violent histories lying beneath a garden, a school, a luxury hotel, the sea and other unremarkable landscapes. These anonymous places contain the remains of some of the 17,000 people who disappeared during Lebanon’s Civil War. As the camera patiently interrogates the spaces, voices of eyewitnesses, relatives, former detainees and survivors fill them with fragmentary stories of kidnapping, torture, and mass burial.
Nearly 30 years after the end of the war, families in Lebanon have been unable to find answers about the fate of their loved ones. However, the creation of a National Commission for the Disappeared in 2020 has injected new hope that these sites will be investigated and that remains will one day be returned to families awaiting a bone to bury. This documentary stands as the first record of these sites, threatened by neglect, real estate developments, and oblivion.
More information is available on the film’s website.
Contact:
Max Calleo
mcalleo@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Please register to attend this event.
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
