“Raise Your Head, We are Making an Honorable Film”: Heiny Srour on the Restored Leila and the Wolves and The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Refusing a single dominant system of values in Lebanon as the secular daughter of a working class Lebanese Jewish father and an Egyptian aristocrat mother provided filmmaker Heiny Srour with what she has called a “wide-angle view of the world,” from which she has felt qualified to critique, without embellishment, failures of the Arab left. Though ultimately disappointed by the revolutionary Middle East organizations of the ‘60s and ‘70s, who lapsed into anti-semitism or sexism while postponing women’s liberation until the end of imperialism, she’s noted the exceptions of the Lebanese Communists (who were, however, too weak to enact a […] The post “Raise Your Head, We are Making an Honorable Film”: Heiny Srour on the Restored Leila and the Wolves and The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
Refusing a single dominant system of values in Lebanon as the secular daughter of a working class Lebanese Jewish father and an Egyptian aristocrat mother provided filmmaker Heiny Srour with what she has called a “wide-angle view of the world,” from which she has felt qualified to critique, without embellishment, failures of the Arab left. Though ultimately disappointed by the revolutionary Middle East organizations of the ‘60s and ‘70s, who lapsed into anti-semitism or sexism while postponing women’s liberation until the end of imperialism, she’s noted the exceptions of the Lebanese Communists (who were, however, too weak to enact a […] The post “Raise Your Head, We are Making an Honorable Film”: Heiny Srour on the Restored Leila and the Wolves and The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
