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Film Week

Posted in Culture, KU on November 23, 2008| 11 Comments »

The Department of English language & Literature
Presents
Film Week
Featuring
Orientalism in Film

23-27 November 2008, 7 pm
Ceremonial Hall
(across from Al Ahli Bank)
Khaldiya Campus, Kuwait university

Free Admission

23 November 2008
The Sheik
Directed by George Melford
Featuring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres
USA, 1921, 80 minutes
Silent/English

24 November 2008
Edward Said: On Orientalism
Directed by Sut Jhally
Documentary
USA, 1998, 40 minutes
English

25 November 2008
Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Featuring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
USA, 1942, 103 minutes
English

26 November 2008
TV’s Promised Land
Directed by Nicholas Dembowski
Documentary
USA, 2003, 75 minutes
English

27 November 2008
The Battle of Algiers
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Featuring Brahmin Haggiag ad Jean Marin
Italy/Algeria, 1966, 116 minuts
French and Arabic with English subtitles

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Green and a barren Road

Posted in Books, Life on November 18, 2008| 9 Comments »

This morning at work I signed a ‘Go Green’ form brought by a student. And when I head back from work, I find out that project Go Green is ready to start at home. Here are the boys with their garden tools, hard, or so it seems, at work.
I wonder how long before these flowers die.

green

After enjoying the sight of these two adorable nephews with their green thumbs, I continue reading a book that held me captive since I started it two days ago: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Here I am taken by McCarthy into a wasteland where no green thumb exists, a land left desolate and a people becoming extinct. This is a must-read. Find the book. Read the book. Then tell me what you think.

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taking a break

Posted in Life on November 14, 2008| 8 Comments »

As we sit in the ‘7osh’ I decide to take a break from correcting exams and visit my blog, for no other reason than wanting to post a picture and a song. The picture is one of those impasses in playing card, much similar to that impasse I’m having in correcting exam papers. The three players are already getting bored as they reach a point in the game where almost nothing works.

The song…just an old one that brings with it old memories, being played on brother’s MacAir as we sit in our ‘7osh’ enjoying the pre-storm breeze.

The clouds are gathering, and the papers cry for attention, so I leave you with Mayyada and Sequence.
sequence
ميادة الحناوي – الحب اللي كان

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