They Were Promised the Sea

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Co-sponsored by the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Dept. of History

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A film screening followed by discussion with Kathy Wazana (Film director), Alma Heckman (Dept. of History, UCLA), Gil Hochberg (Dept. of Comparative Literature, UCLA)


Wednesday, February 4, 2015
4:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
UCLA


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Kathy Wazana’s They Were Promised the Sea is an intimate journey shot in Morocco, Israel-Palestine, and New York. Her research into her family origins in Morocco unleashed a complex web of questions about dual identity, political opportunism, and the challenges faced by those torn between Homeland and Promised Land.


Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Co-sponsored by the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Department of History, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies

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Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies

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