By Tony Fabrizio ESPN Amber Fares grew up in Alberta, Canada, proud of her Lebanese heritage, but never feeling a need to deeply explore it until after 9/11. Then, everything changed. “In a blink of an eye, you went from being a citizen to a suspect [because of] an issue that I really didn’t know … Continued
BY: Barbara Nimri Aziz/Contributing Writer One hardly expects a story of political struggle to feature a team of intemperate young women racing their cars around a dusty, fenced-in track. But in a Palestinian context, everything is political. Even if the new film Speed Sisters doesn’t chronicle an explicit struggle, it’s a portrait of a people … Continued
The Speed Sisters of Palestine: Marah, Noor, Maysoon, Betty and Mona. (Speed Sisters) By Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times They rev their engines and race on a battered land. They are five Palestinians in what’s billed as the first all-female race car team in the Middle East. They roar beyond checkpoints of Israeli soldiers and … Continued
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