Two Meetings and a Funeral
07/06/2017
Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladesh’s historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Algeria to its ideological counterpoint, the emergence of a strong Islamic perspective at the 1974 Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) meeting in Lahore. Centred on Bangladesh’s navigation of these two historic meetings, as well as its fight for United Nations recognition (vetoed by China, acting as a proxy for Pakistan), the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonialism, liberation theology and socialism. In particular, it looks at how a transnational Islamic ‘ummah’ concept was used against socialist forces.
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Vijay Prashad
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Samia Zennadi
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Zonayed Saki
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Fidel Castro
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Yasser Arafat
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Indira Gandhi
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Anwar Sadat
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Amirul Islam
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Atef Berredjem
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Muammar Gaddafi
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