Word: suleimane
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...committee made up of a group of impartial filmmakers. Palestine, lacking many of the trappings of a nation, also lacks any such committee. "We were going to construct a committee for the purpose of submitting the film, but we never got that far," says the film's director, Elia Suleiman. "At least now the academy might have to re-evaluate the logistics of how they reject or accept films...
...University. Dillon’s father, Clarence Dillon, gave Harvard the Dillon Field House after the old Locker House burned down in 1930, as well as generous monetary gifts. He established two Kennedy School professorships: the Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, currently held by Susan R. Suleiman and the Clarence Dillon Professorship of International Affairs, which Allison now holds...
...important, perhaps, is the site's propaganda function. In addition to religious tutelage on the merits of al-Qaeda's view of "jihad" and "martyrdom," the site provides news of the well-being of key al-Qaeda leaders, and occasionally even carries their audio-taped statements. Bin Laden spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith used al-Qaeda-friendly Web sites last month to prove that he remains alive and at large, and to raise the morale of its operatives. His audio-taped statement, whose authenticity was confirmed in Washington, insisted that Osama bin Laden has survived the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan...
...least Tajikistan is a nation, unlike Palestine. As director Elia Suleiman says, "It's a concept, not a country." Most people would not guess that Palestine had even one filmmaker; if you asked them to define "Palestinian film," they'd say it was newsreel footage of a suicide bomber. And don't even ask about a Palestinian sense of humor. Yet Suleiman's Divine Intervention, which won a jury prize, was one of the most sophisticated and, in its dark way, funniest films at Cannes...
...irony behind these Third World films is that their makers often were schooled in the U.S. or Europe. Mehrjui is a graduate of UCLA, a few miles from Hollywood. Suleiman went to New York University, a mile up from Wall Street. The Thai film Blissfully Yours was made by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Blissfully was named best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, in part because it plays by the minimalist rules of international cinema: a static camera, forlorn characters, lots of driving and a little sex for spice. See what...