Films
Journeys to Mecca: archive film afternoon

Saturday 25 February, 13.30–17.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre 
£10, Members/concessions £6

Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Ticket Desk in Great Court

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An afternoon of talks and early documentaries and films featuring Hajj and Mecca.

Includes a Dutch silent film (1928), a Malaysian short (1955) and two documentaries, The Pilgrimage to Mecca (1964), directed by Safouh I. Naamani, and Circling the House of God (2010), directed by Ovidio Salazar, in which Dr Martin Lings recounts his first pilgrimage to Mecca in 1948. With talks by the director Ovidio Salazar and John Slight, independent researcher.

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