**MONDAY 4/3@ 6:00 PM
**FILM SCREENING: BAB ILSAM' MAFTOOH [Door to the Sky] [Une porte sur le ciel].
Nadia, a Moroccan who has been living in Paris, returns home to Fez where she is befriended by 'traditional' women, and reconnected to her homeland. She turns her family home into a Zaouia, a Sufi meeting place and community shelter for disinherited women. She, however, soon falls in love with a young man and breaks the rules of the Zaouia by bringing him home with her, forcing a confrontation with the other women.
Director: Farida BenLayazid. 120 mins., 1989, Morocco. (Arabic Language in Moroccan dialect, French Subtitles only.)

**MONDAY 11/3@ 6:00 PM
**LAUNCH OF PROGRAM "Women in photography and film"

**WELCOME: Adila Laidi (Director\Sakakini), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi (Secretary-General\MIFTAH), Fatene Behnabyles
(Director of French Cultural Centre, Jerusalem).
**INTRODUCE MIFTAH's Program of Empowerment of Palestinian Women Leadership-Media.
**(6:30) FILM SCREENING of THIS IS NOT LIVING "HAY MISH EISHI"
This documentary features portraits of 8 Palestinian women. These are not exceptional women or women leaders in
the news media sense. They are civilian women who reject the degrading, terrorizing drama of war. They are from
different backgrounds and professions attempting to live morally in inhuman times, holding on to their ability to
reflect on themselves and their condition.
Director: Alia Arasoughly. 42 minutes, 2001. (Arabic language, Palestinian dialect, English subtitles only.)
Discussion with Director.
**(7:30) RECEPTION & OPENING OF PHOTO EXHIBIT "MEMOIRE D'ELLES"
by French photographer Sophie Elbaz. Multi generation pictures of women from different ethnic backgrounds in
France.

**TUESDAY 12/3@ 6:00 PM
**POETRY READING: "CHAOS OF FIRE" (FAWDA AN-NAR)
Conducted by young talented poets, this special reading will feature promising poets from the editorial board of
Yara'at,
supervised by Tamer Institute.

**THURSDAY 14/3@ 5:00 PM
**KIDS ORIGAMI WORKSHOP
Kids, (12-16) will learn Origami, the Japanese art of folding papers, making cranes, flowers, and other 3-D objects.
Imad Hassan, a student at Birziet University, will give the workshop. Imad trained at the Japanese Embassy, and has
given numerous workshops for children and teachers.

**MONDAY 18/3 @5:00 PM
**OPENING OF ART EXHIBIT " THE PRESENCE OF PLACES"
by Husni Radwan, acrylic and watercolor works.
&6 PM: FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF SILENCE OF THE PALACES "SAMT AL-QUSOR"
Alia is born to serve men. Her mother is a servant in the palace of the Bey - dispensing food and her body, to the
royal princes of Tunisia. As Alia, now a singer in post colonial Tunisia, looks at her own childhood in the palace in the
1960's, she must come to terms with the meaning of her mother's life and the tradition of bondage she's attempting
to escape. Moufida Tlatli's quietly observant eye records the beauty, decadence, and the horror of this stifling, now
vanished world.
Director: Moufida Tlatli. 127 mins., 1994, Tunisia. (Arabic language Tunisian dialect, French subtitles only)

**SATURDAY 23/3@ 6:00 PM
** BOOK SIGNING OF "JARDIN ANDALOU" BY FRENCH ARTIST SAPHO
As part of the solidarity movement with Palestinians, singer Sapho and other French artists have written a book titled "An Andalusia Garden". The singer and others will read excerpts from the book in this solidarity evening.

**MONDAY 25/3@ 6:00 PM
**FILM SCREENING OF RAZOR'S EDGE "GHAZAL AL-BANAT"
A young Shiite teenage girl roams the streets of Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. Her sole knowledge of life
comes from Egyptian films and the civil war around her - both highly deformed pictures of reality. Twice made
homeless, once from her village in Southern Lebanon, and then in Beirut, she forms a small band of children 'militia'
who collect stones from the shelled buildings for the rebuilding of Beirut. She comes of age, both emotionally and
sexually, as she befriends her local 'neighborhood' sniper and a French artist, and lives on the edge.
Director: Jocelyn Saab, 100 mins., 1985. (Arabic language, Lebanese dialect, French subtitles only.