[LCM Events] 'Deserted Riviera' - Documentary on Post-War Lebanon: Thursday, February 21st at 7:30pm

[Zeina Ghaleb Saab]

Dear All,

The Lebanese Club at MIT will be screening 'Deserted Riviera', a documentary on
the aftermath of the 2006 Summer War.  This documentary recently won third place
at the ION International Film Festival in Los Angeles.

The screening will take place on Thursday, February 21st at 7:30pm.  It will be
followed by a Q&A session with producer, Iason Athanasiadis.

DESERTED RIVIERA:
TRAVELS IN POST-WAR LEBANON
A documentary by Iason Athanasiadis, Nieman Fellow,
Nieman Foundation/Harvard University

DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
TIME: 7:30pm
LOCATION: Building 1, Room 190
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=1&Buildings=go
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Please see below for more information on the documentary and the producer.  We
hope you can make it!

Best,
Zeina

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ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY:
A current affairs travelogue filmed immediately after the 2006 Summer
War between Israel and Hizbullah, Deserted Riviera casts a penetrating
look at the conflict's legacy. Greek film-maker Iason Athanasiadis and
Lebanese cameraman Ziad Tarraf negotiated strong access to Hizbullah
leaders and field-workers alike as they traversed devastated villages on
the frontline with Israel, the still-smoking ruins of Beirut's Shiite
quarters and central Beirut's hedonistic nightclubs. A fast-paced,
insider's view of postwar Lebanon.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
Writer, photographer and television producer, Iason Athanasiadis
has been covering the Middle East, Central Asia and the southeast
Mediterranean since 1999. He earned degrees in Arabic and Modern
Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University (BA) as well as
Persian and Contemporary Iranian Studies at Tehran's School of
International Studies (MA).

Athanasiadis lived in Iran from 2004-2007, covering conflicts in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Lebanon for U.S., British and
international media including the Times, the Christian Science
Monitor, American Prospect, British Journalism Review and the
South China Morning Post. He covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq
from Qatar for al-Jazeera, the 2004 Athens Olympics for BBC World
and the 2006 Israeli-Hizbullah war in Lebanon as a freelancer. At
the same time, his photography has been featured in solo
exhibitions in Germany, Greece and Iran, and his work published
in Der Spiegel and the Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers
and magazines. Fluent in Arabic and Persian, Iason practices
immersion journalism, without the support of fixers and
translators.

A native of Greece, Athanasiadis is currently a Fellow at the
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is an
Aristotle Onassis Foundation scholar.