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Heard any good Palestinian jokes lately? In TV news clips, the inhabitants of the occupied territories don't seem to be a laughing people. That's one reason Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention is a cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image...
...main plot is simple: two lovers live on opposite sides of al-Ram checkpoint; the man tries to be with the woman when he's not at his dying father's bedside. Since the man is played by Suleiman, 42, and his lover by his ex-lover, Palestinian journalist Manal Khader, and since Suleiman's father did die as he was writing the screenplay, this is clearly a kind of autobiographical satire. "Cinema is a form of striptease for me," says Suleiman. "I jot down very personal moments of everyday life when they tickle me. There is no message...
...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...