Event Details
May 29, 2022
7:30 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M6H 1M2
The screening is followed by a conversation with Dalal Bizri.
Screenings:
Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)
Country: Lebanon, Germany
Director: Hisham Bizri
Length: 89 mins
Synopsis: A kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War.
Speaker:
Dalal Al-Bizri, Lebanese researcher and writer
Dalal Al-Bizri, Lebanese researcher and writer. She specializes in contemporary Islamic movements and authored several studies on women’s issues. She served as lecturer in Political Sociology at the Lebanese University and spent ten years as researcher in Egypt.