“The Last Resort”, a documentary that tells the little-known story of the thousands of European refugees who fled to Egypt during World War II, had its premiere recently at the American University in Cairo.
The screening and a panel discussion that followed were among the many events scholars will observe leading up to World Refugee Day on June 20.
“The Last Resort” is the Egyptian director Yara Al-Ghandour’s first documentary.
In her half-hour film, the director employs cinematic language, using archival photos and videos depicting the diaries of European refugees inside El Shatt Refugee Camp, near Suez, Egypt.