[Reader-list] Film: 'Being Osama', Sept 11 @ Oxford Bookstore, Park Street

[OISHIK SIRCAR]

*Open Space and Oxford Bookstore*



*present*



*Let's Talk*

*a film series on human rights*



*September 11*

*6pm*

*Oxford** Bookstore, Park Street, Kolkata*



*'BEING OSAMA'*

Dirs. Tim Schwab<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Schwab&action=edit&redlink=1>and
Mahmoud
Kaabour<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mahmoud_Kaabour&action=edit&redlink=1>/2004/42
mins



'Being Osama' opens a window onto the lives of six Montréalers named Osama.
Through an exploration of the interior and emotional lives of these
subjects, the film connects the experiences of these individual
Arab-Canadians to those of their own larger cultural community and to
Canadian society as a whole, seen against the backdrop of continuing
conflict and suspicion between the West and the Arab/Islamic world. By turns
lyrical, observational, impressionistic, and factual, 'Being Osama' is an
intimate exploration of six people highly diverse in their backgrounds,
interests, and personalities, united by their first name and by their
experience as Arabs living in Canada in the post-9/11 world.



*The film will be introduced and a post-screening discussion moderated by
Oishik Sircar, Scholar in Women's Rights, Faculty of Law, University of
Toronto*


-- 
OISHIK SIRCAR

Scholar in Women's Rights
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

oishiksircar at gmail.com
oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca