PRESS: Selected Links TV Arabic Hour TV interview with Dr. Elaine Hagopian JAN 2010 KCBS TV interview “Filmmaker Jean Marie Offenbacher Joins Phil Matier” Radio KALW San Francisco Public Radio “New American Media” 9 JUL 2010 Wisconsin Public Radio “Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders” 10 MAR 2010 Minnesota Public Radio KFAI "Art Matters" www.kfai.org/artmatters (Scroll down and click on 3/4/10 show) 4 MAR 2010 Contact Radio “What We Need to Know”
 BBC Radio 4 Interview (UK only) Print Dunya wa al Hayat Newspaper The 11th Arabitudes Al Hayat (London) Ali Heweili “’Tea on the Axis of Evil’ Shown in Montreal” http://all4syria.info/content/view/21837/96/ 12 FEB 2010 Qian Jiang Evening News (China) feature by Zhang Qing http://zjdaily.zjol.com.cn/qjwb/html/2010-01/04/content_218043.htm?div=-1 4 JAN 2010 Bitch Magazine aptly named for Mandy Van Deven MAR 2010 Washington Report on Middle East Affaris “Annual Arab Film Festival Features Thought-Provoking, Groundbreaking Cinema” JAN/FEB 2010 issue Qianjiang Evening News Feature Story http://zjdaily.zjol.com.cn/qjwb/html/2009-02/25/content_4545622.htm Canada News http://www.awsatnews.net/?p=16775 Al Mustakbal, Montreal Canada http://www.almustakbal.com/archive/03122009/images/almustak-776.pdf The Arab American News 4 DEC 09 Forum and Link Ihsan Alkhatib “Dir Offenbacher’s “TEA” Demystifies Syria...” vol. 6 issue 134 5 NOV 09 New American Media “How an American Woman Had Tea on the Axis of Evil” 29 Oct 09 The Boston Phoenix Peter Keough “Global Voices” 9 OCT 09

Pacific Sun Newspaper Interview

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PUBLIC Events


Selected Past


Columbia University

New York NY

International Affairs Building

room 1501

6 PM   24 FEB 2011


University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

28 FEB 2011

4 to 6 PM

(excerpts and discussion

also on the 25th)


MESA Film Festival

San Diego

19 NOV 2010


Loyola University

1 NOV 2010


Murray State University

3 NOV 2010


Northwestern University

4 NOV 2010


Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal

4 NOV 2010


De Paul University

5 NOV 2010


Northeastern University

8 NOV 2010

Jean Marie Offenbacher

Harvard University

9 NOV 2010


University of San Francisco

17 NOV 2010


University of Utah

17 NOV 2010

Tea on the Axis of Evil

Bridgewater State University

1 DEC 2010


Shawnee State University

Portsmouth, OH

25 & 26 JAN 2011


University of Cincinnati

24 FEB 2011


University of Virginia

20 OCT 2010


Temple University

26 OCT 2010


University of Pennsylvania

27 OCT 2010


Syracuse University

28 OCT 2010


Le Moyne University

29 OCT 2010


University of Rochester

SEP 2010


University of Michigan, Dearborn

SEP 2010


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

SEP 2010


MIZNA Twin Cities

Film Festival

www.mizna.org

13 MAR 2010


St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

London, England

15 MAR 2010


La Société Gilgamesh

CinéRobothèque ONF

Montréal, Québec

6 FEB 2010


Arab Film Festival

Los Angeles  CA: WGA Cinema,

Berkeley CA: Shattuck Cinemas

OCT 09

WINNER NOOR AWARD

Outstanding Documentary


United Nations Global Voices

Harvard Kennedy School

Cambridge, MA

9 OCT 2009


Salento International Film Festival

Tricase, Italy

SEP 2009

SPECIAL MENTION by Jury


Commonwealth Club

“Syria Behind the Scenes”

San Francisco CA

July 09


Sonoma International Film Festival

Sonoma CA

April 09


Mid Ulster Film Festival

Omagh, N. Ireland

June 09


preview festivals:


IDFA Docs for Sale

Amsterdam, NL

Foyle Film Festival
Derry, N. Ireland

Hot Docs DocShop

Toronto Canada


university screenings - open to public:


University of Massachusetts

O’Leary Room 222

18 Nov 09_11 AM to 2 PM


UCLA

16 FEB 2010 7 PM

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=7855





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