Directed by Amber Fares
Screening at MITMarch 9, 2016 7:00pm*
MIT Campus, Room 6-120
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

 The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, Speed Sisters takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could

The film will be followed by Q&A discussion with Sherene Siekaly.

 Dr. Siekaly is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is an historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. The most enduring concern of her scholarly research has been to explore how individuals, groups, and governments deploy both concepts and material practices to shape economy, the body, the self, and the other. Her research on Palestinian businessmen; reformers of the domestic sphere; thinkers and scientists; and British colonial officers and institutions contributes to social, cultural, and intellectual history, political economy, cultural studies, and gender studies. She is the McMillian-Stewart Lecturer at MIT this spring.

*pizza will be served at 6:30pm.