About Cynthia Weber
Cynthia Weber is an American academic and Professor of International Relations at Sussex University. She also works as a documentary filmmaker, and is the author of ‘I am an American’: Filming the Fear of Difference. Her previous films can be viewed on the I am an American project webpage.
Articles by Cynthia Weber
Not without my sister: imagining a moral America in 'Kandahar'
Shortly after 11 September 2001, George Bush urged US citizens to watch Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film, Kandahar, set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Why? Cynthia Weber investigates the president’s and the filmmaker’s visions of Afghanistan and Afghan women.
Less than two months after 11 September 2001, and a few weeks after the beginning of the US bombing campaign in Afghanistan, President George W Bush made an urgent plea to see Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar. He encouraged US citizens to watch it as well.
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