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Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - A Stone's Throw Away
Friday, 25 June 2004, 12:33 am | Sonia Nettnin
“I lost the will to live when I lost my friend,” the boy said. “But Kiftah will always be in my heart…I will never forget him.” A STONE’S THROW AWAY is a documentary about life under military occupation and the Palestinian youth who suffer from it. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Siege
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 10:32 am | Sonia Nettnin
Israeli soldiers left their mark. In the Ministry of Culture’s office, they draped the windows with barbed wire. On the floor, crates filled with bottles of urine. Feces on the rug. The inside of a Xerox machine smeared brown. More >>
Sonia Nettnin Review: Freedom I Have Lost
Wednesday, 23 June 2004, 12:14 am | Sonia Nettnin
The bulldozer rolled over the metal-frame homes. Israeli soldiers grabbed the Bedouin men. Women yelled into the air. Horses, camels and sheep ran everywhere. Within 24-hours, the land became a military zone. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Keys
Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 11:16 am | Sonia Nettnin
KEYS is a documentary film about several Palestinian families who crossover the green partition line; and they revisit the remains of their homes and villages. During the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival, KEYS (in Arabic, MAFATEEH,) had ... More >>
Review: Elias Chacour - Prophet in His Own Country
Monday, 21 June 2004, 11:45 am | Sonia Nettnin
ELIAS CHACOUR: PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY is a film about a Melkite priest who brings the seeds of peace to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the screening at the Southwest Youth Collaborative on Saturday. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: To Create Something Out of Nothing
Monday, 21 June 2004, 11:45 am | Sonia Nettnin
On stage, they dance the movement of life. When they speak, their voices reveal the meaning behind the burning heart. More >>
Film Review And Response: Writers On The Borders
Friday, 18 June 2004, 1:31 pm | Sonia Nettnin
The U.S. premiere of WRITERS ON THE BORDERS (ECRIVAINS DES FRONTIERES,) showed at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Sunday. The third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the screening, along with one of the film’s directors, Samir Abdallah. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Ford Transit
Monday, 14 June 2004, 1:42 pm | Sonia Nettnin
The final screening of FORD TRANSIT at the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival showed on Friday. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Film Review and Analysis of JIHAD!
Friday, 11 June 2004, 1:55 pm | Sonia Nettnin
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the world premiere of JIHAD! at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday. Directed by Muhammed Rum, the Topiary Productions film is an individual and global exploration of the word and its meaning. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Arna's Children
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 1:45 pm | Sonia Nettnin
The film ARNA’S CHILDREN, opened the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Friday. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Iraq War Memorial Day
Monday, 31 May 2004, 1:03 pm | Sonia Nettnin
Numerous Midwest peace, justice and religious organizations placed over 100 coffins on Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago for Iraq War Memorial Day on Thursday. More >>
Sonia Nettnin Poem: Words Burn Pages
Friday, 28 May 2004, 5:00 pm | Sonia Nettnin
Thick mist : after midnight : desert : rose blooms : moonlight : petals beneath More >>
Throughout Conflict, Relief Organization Responds
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 4:09 pm | Sonia Nettnin
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund established itself during the first intifada (uprising). The organization formed in response to the urgent needs of Palestinian children caught in the gunfire of the Israel-Palestine conflict. More >>
Sonia Nettnin Poem: It's Raining Olives
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 2:06 pm | Sonia Nettnin
Desert land : never saw : downpour : olives. Trees : razed by bulldozers : fall : thud the ground, : so roots wombs : scorch in : heat. A fruit : shower of More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Al-Nakba - The Catastrophe (Part 1)
Friday, 14 May 2004, 12:11 am | Sonia Nettnin
Visions : of Palestine : burn the soul, like : fire skies : where dove wings soar : ancestral winds. Sing : times alive debkeh : footsteps, Arabiyya : song. Rhythms in More >>
Sonia Nettnin: U.S. Humiliation, Global Community
Monday, 10 May 2004, 1:24 pm | Sonia Nettnin
Now that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, here are some of the highlights. Afterward is a response to some of the statements made at Friday’s hearing. More >>
Vanguard Demystifies Israel-Palestine Conflict
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 2:31 pm | Sonia Nettnin
Norman G. Finkelstein spoke about the Israel-Palestine conflict in Oak Park, IL. He was the final speaker in “Voices of Conscience and Dissent: Important Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” a community education and dialog series. The ... More >>
Ugandan Woman Speaks: ''I Was a Child Soldier''
Monday, 26 April 2004, 3:02 pm | Sonia Nettnin
On the night of October 10, 1996, rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army broke the windows of St. Mary’s College, in Aboke, Uganda. If the girls did not open the doors, the rebels threatened to throw bombs in the boarding school. More >>
Film Review: Al-Jazeera, Arab Voices
Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:26 am | Sonia Nettnin
U.S. mainstream media coverage reports that terrorism predominates the Arab world. After the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera became available to Americans, viewers saw the stereotypes of the Arab people in the U.S. news cycle. As a result, ... More >>
James Miller's Documentary: Death in Gaza
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 1:12 pm | Sonia Nettnin
James Miller’s ''Death in Gaza,'' was shown at the second annual Chicago International Documentary Film Festival. It examines the lives of Palestinian youth who live in Nablus, West Bank and Rafah, Gaza of the occupied Palestinian Territories. More >>
