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This chapter investigates how Lebanese former frontline journalist and documentary maker, Jocelyne Saab, explores truth and reality in her 2005 feature film, Dunia (Kiss Me Not on the Eyes). It traces how Saab, when faced with the fact that she could no longer face making stories with real images about Middle-Eastern conflict, turns to the fictional world of feature film. Dunia explores how a young Egyptian student of dance and poetry, in her journey to “free her body and dance with her soul,” confronts the traditions of female genital mutilation still practiced on 97% of young Egyptian women. The chapter considers the narrative and aesthetic challenges and decisions Saab faced in making Dunia, when she found “the truth became too hard to tell”.
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McVeigh, M. (2018). When the Truth Becomes Too Hard to Tell: Jocelyne Saab & Dunia (2005). In: Thornley, D. (eds) True Event Adaptation. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97322-7_5
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