{"id":23680,"date":"2018-09-20T14:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=23680"},"modified":"2018-09-20T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:31:45","slug":"middle-eastern-movie-series-to-premiere-kurdish-film-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/middle-eastern-movie-series-to-premiere-kurdish-film-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern Movie Series to Premiere Kurdish Film on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23681\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23681\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23681\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/MV5BMTM2NTQzNDI4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTU1NDExOQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR007071000_AL_-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/MV5BMTM2NTQzNDI4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTU1NDExOQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR007071000_AL_-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/MV5BMTM2NTQzNDI4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTU1NDExOQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR007071000_AL_-299x423.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/MV5BMTM2NTQzNDI4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTU1NDExOQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR007071000_AL_.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bekas (2012). Courtesy of Kinda Haddad.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Join the Kurdish Poltical Studies Program for the first movie in a Middle Eastern movie series with movies from across the Middle East, including the Arab World, Iran, Turkey and Kurdistan. Authentic Middle Eastern food will be provided during the showing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> BEKAS, 2012<\/li>\n<li><strong>Director:<\/strong> Karzan Kader<\/li>\n<li><strong>Description:<\/strong> Two orphaned Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town\u2019s first movie theater and devise a plan to live with him in the United States. It\u2019s a long, dangerous road ahead, requiring the boys to rely on each other to not only survive, but to achieve their dream.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time and Location:<\/strong> 7 p.m. on October 1, UCF Global Building Rm. 101<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please RSVP to Haidar Khezri at hkhezri@ucf.edu or (812) 558-6118, and be on the lookout for the next movie in the series.<\/p>\n<p>This is sponsored\u00a0by the Kurdish Political Studies Program (KPSP), Department of Modern Languages &amp; Literatures, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Al Ghazali Islamic Studies Program, and Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies (PMBF Program).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Kurdish Poltical Studies Program for the first movie in a Middle Eastern movie series with movies from across the Middle East, including the Arab World, Iran, Turkey and Kurdistan. Authentic Middle Eastern food will be provided during the showing. 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