Award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel will join us at CILAS on Tuesday for a screening of her 2007 documentary entitled Salata Baladi (an Egyptian Salad) followed by a Q&A session. 

The movie is an exploration of Nadia Kamel’s complex family heritage. “Her mother is a half-Jewish, half-Christian Italian who converted to Islam when she married Nadia’s half-Turkish, half-Ukrainian father. Prompted by the realization that her 10-year-old nephew Nabeel is growing up in an Egyptian society where talk of culture clashes is all too common, she urges her feminist, pacifist, activist mother, Mary Rosenthal, to share their diverse family history. But, as she and Mary weave their way through the family’s multiethnic fairytales, they bump unexpectedly into the silence around old prejudices concerning the estranged Egyptian-Jewish branch of their family living in Israel since 1948. Bravely inspired to further challenge the boundaries between cultures, religions, and nationalities that are used to divide people, Kamel embarks on an amazing personal journey with her mother and nephew to Israel and Italy, confronting with an open heart, fears and prejudices along the way.”

To read more about Salata Baladi, click on this link below (@[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vd3d3LndtbS5jb20vZmlsbWNhdGFsb2cvcGFnZXMvYzc0Ni5zaHRtbDo6:http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c746.shtml])

Salata Baladi has won the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival, the Best Long Documentary and Special Prize from the International Critics Jury of the International Federation of Film Critics, and the Noor Award for Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Arab Film Festival.

Duration: 105 minutes
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Trailer: @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBzXGEvL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS93YXRjaD92PWVBRkpVMnBrS1RVOjo=:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFJU2pkKTU]

Kindly note that we can only accommodate 30 people on our terrace. You are therefore requested to sign up for this workshop. Please indicate your number and your name on the event's page/wall. 

How to get here: The film screening begins at 17:00 hrs sharp and the doors will be closed at 17:15 hrs. To get to CILAS walk through Al-Ghuria gate (connecting Al-Ghuri mosque and Al-Ghuri madrassa) on the right hand-side coming down Kobri Al-Azhar (Al-Azhar bridge). Take your first right behind the mosque and then take the first left into the market until the end of the 'blanket vendors' alley'. CILAS shares a building with the Center for Egyptian Civilization Studies.