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Leila Khaled: Hijacker

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Leila Khaled was the first woman in the world to hijack an aircraft. As a member of the Popular front for the liberation of Palestine, PFLP, she hijacked an American Boeing 707 in 1969. This is the story told by a young Palestinian who grew up in Sweden about what made Leila Khaled become one of the world’s most famous terrorists and the most famous Palestinian Woman of all.

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Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jan 30
Slowly, through through these conversations, Makboul begins to see the ways in which she has been raised to see history through a bias lens. Go to Full Review Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) 08/24/2017
The film is often embarrassingly adolescent both in tone and in its approach to the Israeli/Palestinian question, a subject that is so deeply fraught it is almost unendurable. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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chip a @chipanator 06/14/2024 Glorifying ideological violence. We see enough on the nightly news. See more Read all reviews
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Lina Makboul

Director

Lina Makboul

Writer

Tussilago

Producer

Mårten Ekehed

Music

Jallo Faber

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Synopsis Leila Khaled was the first woman in the world to hijack an aircraft. As a member of the Popular front for the liberation of Palestine, PFLP, she hijacked an American Boeing 707 in 1969. This is the story told by a young Palestinian who grew up in Sweden about what made Leila Khaled become one of the world’s most famous terrorists and the most famous Palestinian Woman of all.
Director
Lina Makboul
Producer
Tussilago
Screenwriter
Lina Makboul
Distributor
OVID
Production Co
Sveriges Television, Tussilago, First Hand Films
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
Arabic
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 13, 2024
Runtime
58m