The School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program presents:

Beyond Belief, a film by Beth Murphy.

6:00 p.m. Film & Student Social Action Fair

8:00 p.m. A conversation with Susan Retik

Film Synopsis

Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to focus on the country where the terrorists who took their husbands' lives were trained: Afghanistan.

Over the course of two years, as they cope with loss and struggle to raise their families as single mothers, these extraordinary women dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression - factors they consider to be the root causes of terrorism. As Susan and Patti make the courageous journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. (Synopsis from http://www.principlepictures.com/beyondbelief/)

You can learn more about Beyond the 11^th at http://www.beyondthe11th.org/

Facebook event: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42406190169

Sponsored by:
School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program
The Office of International Programs (http://humanrights.rutgers.edu)
College Avenue Campus Dean’s Office
Douglass Residential College Dean's Office and Global Village