Name: MEI Short Films Program
Start: 2019-04-08T18:15:00-04:00
End: 2019-04-08T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Harvard Kennedy School

MEI Short Films Program

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Join us for MEI's short films program about child protection and migration followed by a panel discussion with the film makers. The program is featuring the following three short films: <A HREF="https://tomorrowschildrenfilm.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tomorrow's Children</A>, <A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/FarahNabulsi/videos/1913025302342227/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Today They Took My Son</A> and <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-VWvYY21I4" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ayny</A>.
<A HREF="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/oula-alrifai" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oula A. Alrifai</A> and Mouhanad Al Rifay will introduce their new award winning short documentary film, <A HREF="https://tomorrowschildrenfilm.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tomorrow's Children</A>, about six Syrian children who escaped the war in Aleppo, Syria and were forced into child labor in Turkey.  Oula Alrifai is the Executive Producer of Tomorrow's Children and a second-year master's candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Alrifai is a Student Intern at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously Alrifai was a political asylee from Damascus, Syria, in 2005 and received her American citizenship in 2016. Mouhanad Al Rifay is the Director of Tomorrow's Children, humanitarian and human rights activist. He has been involved in the Syrian democracy movement years before the uprising, disseminating information about human rights violations to Western media. For graduate studies at Harvard University, Al Rifay aims to further develop expertise in narrative writing and journalism. Al Rifay was a political asylee and received U.S. citizenship in 2015.
Farah Nabulsi will introduce her short documentary film, <A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/FarahNabulsi/videos/1913025302342227/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Today They Took My Son</A>, based on a UNICEF report about a mother coping with her young son being taken away. Nabulsi is a British Palestinian filmmaker, human rights advocate and founder of <A HREF="http://www.oceansofinjustice.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oceans of Injustice</A>. She writes, directs and produces creative short films on Palestinian life under occupation. Her work has been screened internationally at film festivals, universities and the United Nations. Her forthcoming film, "The Present", underscores the importance of freedom of movement as a basic human right.
<A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-VWvYY21I4" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ayny</A> by Ahmad Saleh is a short animated film about two refugee boys who dream to play music. 
This event is co-sponsored by the <A HREF="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/home" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Middle Eastern Studies</A> at Harvard University.
For more details, visit the <A HREF="https://www.belfercenter.org/event/mei-short-films-program#contact-https://www.belfercenter.org/event/mei-short-films-program#contact-https://www.belfercenter.org/event/mei-short-films-program#contact-https://www.belfercenter.org/event/mei-short-films-program#contact-https://www.belfercenter.org/event/mei-short-films-program#contact-" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MEI events page</A> or contact Maura James <A HREF="mailto:maura_james@hks.harvard.edu" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">maura_james@hks.harvard.edu</A>.

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