Rana's Wedding Film Analysis

In order to fully understand the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict, the history of the land must be discussed. According to James Gelvin, in the book The Modern Middle East, the Palestine-Israel dispute “is, simply put, a real estate dispute” (Gelvin 217). Both the Zionist, Jewish immigrants, and the Palestinian Arabs demand the Palestinian land. Prior to the United Nations vote on Palestine (the land), “a civil war broke out between the two communities” (224). Zionism gave a religious community the right to call itself a nation in a way that the Palestinian national movement could not uphold. This is due to the “fact that Palestinian nationalism developed later than Zionism” and divisions within the Arab community (222). In James Gelvin’s book,
The potential and actualized violence discussed in The Modern Middle East and seen in Rana’s Wedding, reflect the tension of the war. In Rana’s Wedding, Rana is kicking a can when she comes across three men staring at her. She walked with trepidation and uncertainty past them. When viewing this you question what she is uncertain or afraid of. It may be of what the men may do to her. This idea of potential violence is