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Date: 9/19/2007 3:40:11 PM

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Subject: Documentary of Afghani Women - please forward widely

 

The Siraat Collective 

and the Canadian Muslim Union

in marking six years of the occupation of Afghanistan

 

present the screening of 

 

 VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND

With Director/Producer Meena Nanji 

Followed by discussion moderated by Sunera Thobani

On Monday October 1st 

7:30 pm at SFU Harbour Centre

515 W. Hastings St. Rm 1900

2001 saw an unprecedented level of international interest in the lives of
Afghan women living under the Taliban. Since then, however, the media
spotlight on Afghan women has fallen, and with it, public knowledge of the
current situation Afghan women face. What are their lives like now? Have
they really improved since a new government took power? Have they gained any
real rights or do they still live in fear and repression?  

 

View From A Grain of Sand, explores these questions and reveals how Afghan
women have had their rights stripped from them over the last 25 years. Told
through the eyes of three Afghan women: a doctor, a teacher and women’s
rights activist, the project provides illuminating context for Afghanistan
’s current situation and the ongoing battle women face to gain even basic
human rights.  

 

Shot over a three-year period in the sprawling refugee camps of north-
western Pakistan and in the war-torn city of Kabul, the women’s personal
stories are located within the larger context of international interference,
war, and the rise of religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan. The women
lead us through Afghanistan ’s complex history, telling how global power
plays have dramatically impacted their lives in devastating ways. 

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