Coming up in Beirut
Thursday, November 20th
American University of Beirut
5:00 pm in Bathish Auditorium West Hall
Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, Sleepless Nights (2012) digs into the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible…
