Women under siege [videorecording] / director, Marilyn Gaunt ; producer, Elizabeth Fernea.

[New York] : First Run/Icarus Films, [1995?]

1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Rashadiyah, Lebanon, is six miles from Israel. In 1964, 14,000 Palestinians transformed this then peaceful agrarian village overnight into a primary target for repeated Israeli military attacks. Women under siege introduces six women who play crucial roles in this beseiged Palestinian community. As mothers, teachers, organizers, laborers, and sometimes as fighters, the women of Rashadiyah provided the foundation for their peoples' ongoing revolution. Until June 1982, shortly after the completion of this film, heavy Israeli bombing reduced the town to rubble, forcing its residents to flee again.

Images / Video & Film

English

September 18, 2006

VHS.