Palestinian-American Woman Making a Comedy Feature Called

posted on: Apr 3, 2012

Suha Araj is a Palestinian-American woman making a comedy feature called “Khsara,” about Arab women who don’t get married ‘in time.’ It is a not-so-often-told, but often-experienced story: The unmarried woman past her prime. Despite her successes in life, her lack of life’s “most important” accomplishment, a HUSBAND, leaves her with the most undesirable designation: “Khsara.” Khsara, an Arabic word, means “What a shame” “Too bad” “What a pity.”

It’s a universal phenomenon. In other communities khsara might be: “pickled”(Iran), “on the shelf”(Australia), “spinster” (USA), “lost the bus” (Latin America) or “Christmas cake” (Japan).

Araj has been very fortunate to develop the film with the Sundance Institute and the Torino Film Lab and has recently attended the IFP no borders international co-production market and the Berlinale Talent Market this February. She is at the early stages of financing the film and to do so she is shooting a short film in Palestine this summer. If you are interested in supporting this film project, please check out her Kickstarter campaign.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955539544/khsara

She is in the final days of fundraising and any support or passing this infomation along would be helpful.