Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
August 21, 2008
Film "Twenty Five Thousand Tents Maybe More" Now Available on DVD
Al-Awda's Media Center is pleased to announce that you can now
order the film "Twenty Five Thousand Tents Maybe More" on DVD. This documentary
by Samer Salameh and Ala'a al-Sadi, two young Palestinian film makers from
Yarmouk Camp in Syria, premiered at the Sixth Annual International Al-Awda
Convention in May 2008. It powerfully documents the lives of Palestinians
currently stranded in al-Tanaf detention camp in a no man's land on the Iraq
Syria border. It explores the lives of Palestinians who first found refuge in
Iraq with the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the expulsion of its people
in 1948. Following the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, they have
been forced to flee and find refuge elsewhere once again. This profoundly
moving and instructive film gives voice to the suffering and heroism of
Palestinians as they tell of personal experiences, the hardships they endure,
what led them to flee Iraq, as well as their aspirations and hopes for the
future.
For the first time on DVD, this documentary film makes it possible
for the world to see the effect of Western attempts to conquer West Asia, and
the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their struggle to survive and
return to their homeland Palestine.
Background
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), 34,000 Palestinians lived in Iraq before the American invasion in
2003. Since then, about 19,000 have left the country because of harassment,
threats of deportation, abuse by the media, arbitrary detention, torture and
murder. Palestinian neighborhoods such as al-Hurriyya and al-Baladiyyat in
Baghdad have been bombarded and attacked regularly since 2003. Nearly three
thousand Palestinians who were forced to flee are now stranded in detention
camps along the Syria Iraq border. For further information on the current
situation of these Palestinians, please see this factsheet
http://al-awdacal.org/iraq-facts.html
Order your copy
To order your copy of this outstanding DVD, simply go to
http://al-awdacal.org/cdvd.html and follow the instructions. Minimum donation
$20.00 plus $5.00 shipping per copy. All proceeds directed to help alleviate
the suffering at al-Tanaf.
Until Return
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The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
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legal, and historical rights with particular emphasis on the right of
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