Sunday, July 10, 2011

‘Exigent Times’: Konrad Aderer’s Enemy Alien

By Rebecca Panovka, New York Observer
July 6, 2011

In April 2002, police and immigration officers arrested Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti’s at his Queens apartment, launching a two-year legal saga that—according to Enemy Alien, a documentary about his case–saw him placed in solitary confinement for eight months, beaten, denied crucial thyroid medications, and threatened with deportation. Ordering his release in 2004, a judge called his treatment “Kafkaesque.”

The film, screened last night at Anthology Film Archives before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, chronicles the struggle of activists, friends, and lawyers to free Abdel-Muhti. [...]

Read the full review:
http://www.observer.com/2011/07/exigent-times-konrad-aderers-enemy-alien/

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