Film Screening: "Theeb"

Thursday, April 20, 2017 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Cinema

Theeb Flyer1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother, Theeb (“Wolf”), in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers’ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey. The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother, but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening terrain riddled with Ottoman mercenaries, Arab revolutionaries, and outcast Bedouin raiders.

Discussion with Prof. Nathaniel Greenberg (Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages) follows the film.

Free and open to the public  |  Pizza served at 4:45pm

Sponsored by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Film & Video Studies, Film & Media Studies, Global Affairs, Global Interdisciplinary Programs, and the Middle East & Islamic Studies Program.

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