Film screening: The Dupes
The Dupes is a stark, beautifully photographed black and white film tracingthe destinies of three Palestinian refugees brought together bydispossession, despair and hope for a better future.
The setting is Iraq in the 1950s and the protagonists, concealed in the steeltank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait,the “promised land.”
A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s acclaimed novella, MenUnder the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address thePalestinian predicament.
Post Screening discussion with Professor Malek Abisaab from theInstitute of Islamic Studies & SM History Department
Presented by the Islamic Studies Library