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Muslim film festivals explores gay themes
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The Boston Muslim film festival screens "A Jihad for Love," on Monday, March 1. The free event, including the movie and a panel discussion, is at 6:30 p.m. at Boston University Photonics Center, Room 206, 8 Saint Mary's St., Boston.The festival, started in 2008, is organized by the Boston office of the American Islamic Congress.
The festival's blurb on the film: "Filmed in six years, twelve countries and nine languages, “A Jihad for Love” explores the complex intersections between Islam and homosexuality around
the world. Award-winning filmmaker Parvez Sharma, himself a gay Muslim, explores a diversity of Muslim gay experiences by illuminating personal stories in locales as wide-ranging as Egypt, France, India, Iran, South Africa, and Turkey. Sharma’s film also tackles the subject of “jihad” by reclaiming the term as a struggle for love."
"Then join a discussion with Sharma and Yusuf Nasrullah, an openly gay member of the local Muslim community, moderated by Emmy-winning reporter Jared Bowen of WGBH."
This is the second of five films in the Spring 2010 festival. For details see the full festival web page.
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Worldly Boston is James F. Smith's report on people from our community who are making an impact in the world, and on people from abroad doing noteworthy things in Greater Boston. We live in the most global of communities. Worldly Boston helps share those stories.
About James F. Smith
Jim Smith came home to his native Boston in 2002 to become the Boston Globe's foreign editor after spending 22 years abroad. He was previously based in Buenos Aires and Mexico City for the LA Times, and in Johannesburg, Tokyo and The Hague for the AP. In 2007 he became the Globe's national political editor, coordinating presidential campaign coverage. He is a Yale graduate, and has an MBA. He is married to Maxine Hart and has two sons, Matthew and Daniel.
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