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Women Under Siege

• 1982 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- 16mm
• Rashadiyah is a town six miles north of the Israeli border, in Southern Lebanon. Once a peaceful agricultural village, in 1964 it became the setting for a camp housing 14,000 Palestinian refugees. For years they lived under constant harassment and threat of Israeli attack. Women play a crucial role in the Palestinian community, as mothers, teachers, political organizers, farm laborers and fighters. Explores the lives of six representative Palestinian women. In June, 1982, the town of Rashadiyah was bombed and attackkd by Israeli forces. The camp was reduced to ruins, many of the residents forced to flee again.
• Topics: (Middle Eastern Studies, Religions: Islamic, Third World)

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