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CMES Outreach Program Documentary Film Screening
Sleepless Nights (Layali Bala Noom)
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Eliane Raheb
Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, Sleepless Nights (2012) digs into the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible.
Film is 128 minutes long; Q&A to follow film.
Contact: Sarah Meyrick
As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of this program does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.