Le Cool

If you want to read words that are more powerful then weapons, which survived a decade of censorship and become an underground anthem of resistance then Brother Yasin should be on the top of your list. The poems are a personal recollection of Nabeel Yasin’s life before and during Saddam’s regime and the screening tells his story from his exile to the UK to his return visit to Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam. The film, directed by Georgie Weedon, captures the astonishing journey not just of the poet but his poems which were smuggled across borders back into Iraq and copied and distributed among the sympathetic even though they were banned and if found punishable by arrest. The film shows how the poems touched an Iraqi psyche that was struggling under the daily hardships of the regime and how now the poems and the poet himself have become part of the national identity of Iraq. / Sophie Khan
where
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ
020 7479 8950


when
7pm

how much
£10