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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150227T173000
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 truction-film-screening/
SUMMARY:“Return to Haifa” and “Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction
 ” Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Screening of Return to Haifa\, director: Kasem Hawal (1982)\,
  Palestine (Arabic\, English subtitles\, 84 min)\nBased on Ghassan Kanafan
 i\nand Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction\, director: Michel Kheilifi 
 (1984)\, Israel/Palestine (Arabic\, English subtitles\, 30 min)\nPresented
  by Ariella Azoulay\n\nThis event is part of  “1948 – Once Upon a Pal
 estine”\, a film series curated by Ariella Azoulay\, Assistant Professo
 r of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture.\n\nAbout Return to Haifa:\
 n\nReturn to Haifa is based on Kanafani’s novel the plot of which takes 
 place in 1967\, when Palestinian refugees living in the newly occupied ter
 ritories had an opportunity to visit the places from which they had been e
 xpelled in 1948. Saeed and Safiyya\, a Palestinian couple expelled from Ha
 ifa in 1948\, visit the home that had been their own. Miriam\, a Holocaust
  survivor and now a Jewish Israeli citizen who lives in their house\, lets
  them in. She moved there with her husband shortly after the Palestinian c
 ouple had been uprooted. The Palestinian couple returns to Haifa hoping to
  discover something about their baby\, Khaldun\, whom they had left at hom
 e that April morning in 1948\, not realizing that neither of them would be
  able to return. The abandoned baby had been adopted by Miriam and her hus
 band who gave him a Hebrew name – Dov\, now a soldier in the Israeli arm
 y. This tragic encounter depicted by the movie emblematizes the Nakba’s 
 being not only the tragedy of the Palestinian people but also of the Israe
 li Jews who cannot escape confronting this past and becoming accountable f
 or it.\n\nAbout Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction:\nMa’aloul\, locate
 d 6 kilometers from Nazareth was destroyed in 1948 and its residents were 
 not allowed to return but rather declared by the State “present absentee
 s\,” not allowed to have their property back\, just as were Palestinians
  expelled out of the country. This movie makes even more explicit the assu
 mption that the history of Israel cannot be narrated without acknowledging
  the Nakba\, the expulsion of Palestinians and their dispossession. The mo
 vie these internally displaced Palestinians’ testimonies about the destr
 uction of their village Ma’aloul and their dispossession and the curricu
 la taught in a history lesson in Arab schools\, compelled by the state to 
 teach the Zionist version of the events.
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