In this terrific documentary, director Anna Broinowski unfurls the dizzying patchwork of lies surrounding Norma Khouri’s memoir, Forbidden Love
Norma Khouri was perfect talent for a publishing house: an outspoken and articulate English-as-a-second-language author shining a light on a bone-chilling culture of brutal misogyny in an exotic foreign location.
Khouri’s 2003 memoir, Forbidden Love, which detailed the “honour” killing of her childhood best friend, Dalia – purportedly murdered by her father in Jordan because she fell in love with a Christian soldier – became a blockbuster. The book was published in 16 countries, sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and positioned the author as a vigorous advocate for the rights of oppressed Arab women.
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Norma Khouri was perfect talent for a publishing house: an outspoken and articulate English-as-a-second-language author shining a light on a bone-chilling culture of brutal misogyny in an exotic foreign location.
Khouri’s 2003 memoir, Forbidden Love, which detailed the “honour” killing of her childhood best friend, Dalia – purportedly murdered by her father in Jordan because she fell in love with a Christian soldier – became a blockbuster. The book was published in 16 countries, sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and positioned the author as a vigorous advocate for the rights of oppressed Arab women.
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- 7/4/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
DVD Playhouse—November 2010
By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
- 11/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Jordanian-born Norma Khouri gained international attention when her 2003 memoir Forbidden Love recalled how her best friend Dahlia, a Muslim, was murdered for her chaste relationship with a Christian soldier. The book drew attention to the phenomenon of honor killings in places like the Middle East, Africa and even Europe and made Khouri, who was living in Australia at the time, an international figure. It's too bad the book was actually a work of shoddy fiction. Khouri wasn't even living in Amman during the mid 1990s during the period when the book takes place, and neither Dahlia nor star-crossed love ever existed. Khouri had been living in Chicago since she was three and has been investigated for fraud by the FBI. Furthermore, she had been married with two children, but didn't bother to mention her spouse or her offspring during her...
- 10/22/2010
- by Dan Lybarger
- Huffington Post
I saw Anna Broinowski's Forbidden Lie$ at True/False in 2008 and was blown away by the filmmaker's fearless experimentation with construction and story structure. The film is a portrait of Norma Khouri, a Jordanian living in exile in Australia who became a literary star when she published a purported memoir of her best friend's honor killing. The book was eventually revealed as mostly or entirely fabricated; Khouri admitted to embellishment but insisted that the core of the story was true. Broinowski followed the disgraced author back to Jordan in the name of clearing her name, but inevitably uncovered a massive web of lies. Khouri reveals herself as a co ...
- 3/31/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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