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Director: Gini Reticker
Awards: Winner of Best Socially Responsible Content at New Media Film Festival
When a young Egyptian woman travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule, she is arrested, beaten, and tortured by security forces and later punished and imprisoned by her family for daring to speak out. Unbreakable, she sets out in a search for freedom and social justice in a country in the grips of a power struggle, where there is little tolerance for the likes of her. Buoyed by the other activists she meets along the way, Hend Nafea’s story mirrors the trajectory of the Arab Spring—from the ecstasy of newfound courage to the agony of shattered dreams.In the end, despite crushing setbacks, it is resilience that sustains the hope for reform even in the darkest hours of repression.
“Amid the backdrop of countless stories about the oppression of women in the Middle East and North Africa, however, Nafea insists her story is about the strength of Egyptian women.”— Kia Makarechi, Vanity Fair
This ONE NIGHT event is being shown as part of International Education Week and the Kennedy Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Women’s Center, the Multicultural Center, and the Center for International Studies, International Student Union, the LGBT Center, Political Science Majors’ Association, Pi Sigma Alpha, the American Association of University Women – Student Affiliate Group, Campus Involvement Center, SAC, and BSCPB.
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