Kalamazoo Gazette, MI
Nov 16 2004

Iraqi drama ‘Yousif’ screens Wednesday at WMU’s Little Theatre

Gazette Staff Reports

Filmmaker Jameil Al-Oboudi will host a screening of “Yousif,” a drama
about an Iraqi trying to make a new life for himself in America,at 7
p.m. Wednesday at the Little Theatre on Western Michigan University’s
East Campus.

The film, which had its world premiere in 2003 as part of the
Contemporary Arab Cinema program at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film
Center, was shot mostly in Chicago and partially in Kalamazoo. It
stars Mahmoud Altaie and Roxana Cocina in the story of Yousif, a
refugee from Iraq whose life is changed when he discovers a bundle of
letters written by an Armenian immigrant named Joseph during World
War I.

A question-and-answer session with the filmmaker will follow the
screening.