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NADI -Middle East Film Club: The Open Door / Al-Bab al-Maftuh
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Room: Mullins 104
Notes: NADI  - Middle East Film Club for Wed. March 26th, Mullins 104, 7:00 Pm March 26 -- The Open Door / Al-Bab al-Maftuh
         (Egypt, d. Henri Baracat, 1962)

A classic Egyptian melodrama based upon a best-selling coming-of-age novel.  Fatin Hamama is Layla, a headstrong undergraduate struggling, at once, against patriarchy and colonialism.  Why can't girls be just like boys?  Arabic w/English titles




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