Event

Screening and Discussion of The Trials of Spring with HRW

4:30pm: Doors Open. Meet & Greet with HRW's Sarah Leah Whitson
5:30pm: Movie followed by Panel Discussion
7:30pm: Reception with food & drinks

The Trials of Spring follows influential women pursuing justice in the wave of the Arab Spring in Egypt.

When a young Egyptian woman travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule, she is arrested, beaten, and tortured by security forces and later punished and imprisoned by her family for daring to speak out. Unbreakable, she sets out in a search for freedom and social justice in a country in the grips of a power struggle, where there is little tolerance for the likes of her. Buoyed by the other activists she meets along the way, Hend Nafea's story mirrors the trajectory of the Arab Springfrom the ecstasy of new-found courage to the agony of shattered dreams. In the end, despite crushing setbacks, it is resilience that sustains the hope for reform even in the darkest hours of repression.