<br clear="all"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The <b>Lebanese Club at MIT</b> welcomes you to a screening of the new movie "Amreeka" as part of its Uncut Film Series.</span></font><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">DATE : February 24th, 2010</span></font><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">TIME : 6:30 PM</span></font><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ROOM : 1-190</span></font><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (for more information on location : <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/" target="_blank">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=6</a>)</span></font></div>
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<font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Amreeka</span></font></em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> made
its world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival, and played as Opening Night of New Directors/New Films, a
co-presentation of The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of
Lincoln Center. </span></font><em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Amreeka </span></font></em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">made its debut internationally in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was w</span></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">inner of the Fipresci Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009</span></font></span><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></font></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Synopsis</span></font></b><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span></font><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, </span></font><em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Amreeka</span></font></em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">is
a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and
first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new
world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to
call home. </span></font></span><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Amreeka </span></font></em><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">chronicles
the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with
Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the
promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates
high school hallways the way he used to move through military
checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking
up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span></span> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Trailer:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See the trailer at <a href="http://www.amreeka.com/" target="_blank">http://www.amreeka.com/</a></span></font></div>
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div></span></span></font><br>Georges Aoude<br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>Aerospace Controls Laboratory<br>Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><br>