A Feeling Greater Than Love

A Feeling Greater Than Love
NR 1 hr 39 minDocumentary
A car with a loudspeaker on its roof is driving through southern Lebanon The old man at the wheel is calling for people to join a demonstration to support their brothers and sisters whove occupied a tobacco company and are now being besieged by the army His words come from the past as hes referring to events from 1973 events that few remember today Neither the protests made by the tobacco farmers from the south against the large landholders monopoly nor the strike for better working conditions by workers at a Beirut chocolate factory are anchored in the countrys collective memory All recollection of this social movement was erased by the civil war and society has since been marked by deep sectarian divisions

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Original Language:Arabic
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