Informative and educational, this film is well worth seeing and deals with the pivotal role played by Palestinian women during the first intifada and the resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Naila and the Uprising by Julia Bacha Documentary | 2017 When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history - the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
Informative and educational, this film is well worth seeing and deals with the pivotal role played by Palestinian women during the first intifada and the resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Naila and the Uprising by Julia Bacha
Documentary | 2017
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history - the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
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