Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society presents:

Jewish Communities in the Arab World

Thursday, March 24, 2016 @ 6:30 PM & 9:15 PM
Festival Hall, 1215 10 Ave SE (Inglewood), Calgary, AB
$30 General | $20 Students with ID

Two movies this March 24th! Two award winning documentaries about Jewish Communities in the Arab World.

6:30 PM: JEWS OF EGYPT: THE END OF A JOURNEY

A documentary that captures fragments of the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century until their second grand exodus after the tripartite attack of 1956 .. An attempt to understand the change in the identity of the Egyptian society that turned from a society full of tolerance and acceptance of one another .. and how it changed gradually by mixing religious and political views into a society that rejects the others .. a film about the cosmopolitan Egypt in the 40's and Egypt in the new millennium .. how did the Jews of Egypt turn in the eyes of Egyptians from partners in the same country to enemies ..

Everyday Activist: Jews of Egypt: The End of a Journey Film Review >

9:15 PM: TINGHIR-JERUSALEM, ECHOES FROM THE MELLAH

Filmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar, a Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morrocco and raised in France, goes in search of a Jewish community that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.

Everyday Activist: Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah Film Review >

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