Annual
Women's
Studies Film Festival 2005
Muslim Women, in their Own Words
Women's
Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Oakland University
presents
the 2005 Annual Women's Studies Film Festival and Seminar: Muslim Women,
in their
Own Words, February 26, 2005, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm in 156 North Foundation
Hall (campus
map).
This year's women's studies film festival will present movies
by and about Muslim women, as they explore their culture,
their heritage, and their interactions with western societies.
Under One Sky is a documentary about Muslim women in Canada,
some of whom choose to wear the traditional headscarf (hijab)
and some of who do not. The movie explores many issues about
both Islamic and western attitudes toward women, about western
stereotypes of Islamic culture, and about ideological and
class distinctions within Islamic societies that are reflected
in the decision whether or not to adopt western dress.
Kandahar is the product of a collaboration between Canadian
journalist Nelofer Pazira, whose family emigrated from Afghanistan
in the 1980s, and Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It
is a fictional story, but based on Pazira's own experiences
when she attempted to enter Afghanistan to visit a friend
whom she feared was contemplating suicide. Through the eyes
of her fictional counterpart Nafas, we join her on a journey
of discovery back to her homeland.
| Schedule |
| 10:00 -10:30 am |
Registration, light breakfast. |
| 10:30 - 11:15 am |
Documentary, Under One Sky: Arab Women in North America
Talk about the Hijab |
| 11:15 am -12:00 pm |
Riffat Hassan, guest speaker on Islamic feminist theology |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 pm |
Feature film, Kandahar. The movie will be introduced
with the short feature Lifting the Veil, a documentary
about the making of the film. |
| 4:30 - 5:00 pm |
Panelists: Anahid Kulwicki, Firoozeh Dastmalchi, Sumeera
Younis, Hoda Abdel-Ady Zodhy. |
| 5:00 - 5:30pm |
Coffee and reception |
More about the films*:
Kandahar
- Movie Trailers from: Avatarfilms
- Jones, Kent. Center
of the world: for most of us the misery of Afghanistan
was an abstraction. Three films made prior
to the events of 9/11 show the harsh reality and provide
a moral context. Film Comment 38(1) p24(3)
- Klawams, Stuart. Afghan
Journals (Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin, Kandahar). The Nation 273(19) p36
- Chattaway, Peter. Kandahar: Mixing
fiction and documentary, a film from Iran explores the
Taliban's heart of darkness.
Books & Culture 8(1) p9(1)
Related Online Articles/Books:
- Hassan, Riffat. Challenging
the stereotypes of fundamentalism:
an Islamic feminist perspective. Muslim World 91(1/2) p.
55-69.
- Haddad, Yvonne & Esposito, John. Islam,
Gender, & Social Change. New York : Oxford
University Press, 1998
Related Articles/Books avaiable at the Kresge
Library:
- Shirazi, Faegheh. Veil
unveiled : the hijab in modern culture. University
Press of Florida, 2001
- El Guindi, Fadwa. Veil
: modesty, privacy and resistance.
Berg, 1999.
- Haddad, Yvonne & Esposito, John. Islam,
Gender, & Social Change. New York : Oxford
University Press, 1998
*Access
to some full text resources from off campus is limited to
current Oakland students, staff, and faculty.
Past Festivals:
2004,
2002