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Written by ahmad
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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 Saturday 19th April,
8pm
Filmscreening: Just
Married
The theme of Just
Married, by director Ayelet Bechar, is Israel's discriminatory family
reunification process, which has been frozen since 2003. Because no unification
applications are currently being accepted, Palestinians from the occupied West
Bank (excluding Jerusalem, which Israel illegally annexed in 1967) and Gaza
Strip who marry Israeli citizens or residents are unable to legally live with
their spouses in Israel or occupied East Jerusalem.
For Kifah, this means that she must live with her Gaza-born husband in Germany,
where they at a conference. She gave up her career as the head of the ministry
of culture in Israel to be with her husband, feeling isolated in a country where
she doesn't speak the language. She risks losing her Israeli citizenship as
well.
The honeymoon doesn't last long for Suhad, either. She and her
husband, a resident of Jerusalem, are given the runaround by Israeli authorities
and so she lives illegally in the city, and risks arrest and getting her husband
into trouble by visiting her family in Bethlehem. Soon, she too feels alone, as
she is stuck inside all day in order to avoid being caught by the Israeli
authorities. "I've moved only 10 kilometers away, but it's like I'm in America,"
she says.
The AICafe is open on Tuesday and Saturday night from
7pm. It is located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, close
to Suq a Shaab square (follow the sign to Jadal Center) We have a small library
with both novels and political books and magazines.
Phone number; 02
2775444
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