24 October
2018
Type of event: 
The Great Book Robbery
Speakers:
Organizing office: 
IPS Beirut
Date: 
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 16:30
Language: 
English
Location: 
Beirut
Event Theme: 
About the event: 

The Great Book Robbery: Chronicles of a cultural destruction tells the story of 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly created State of Israel in 1948. The film interweaves various story lines into a structure that is both dramatically compelling and emotionally unsettling. The interviews centre on eyewitness accounts and cultural critiques that place the book theft affair in a larger historical-cultural context; in the process, new light is shed on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948 and the moralistic-heroic Israeli narrative of the 1948 war is deconstructed.

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