Cairo Chronicles reflection

I went to the showing of Cairo Chronicles, an independent film by Tania Kamal-Eldin that was shown on March 12 as a part of women's history month. The film was a personal documentary of Tania's return to Cairo, Egypt. Tania's father was a native Egyptian and met Tania's mother, who was from the United States, at the University of Iowa. Her parents moved back to Egypt and were married. When Tania was young, she and her mother returned to the U.S.
The death of her father brought her back to Egypt decades later. The film was not about the passing of her father, or her personal loss, but about the changed city of Cairo Tania returned to. The city was not the same city which she had spent her childhood in. It was not a clean, peaceful city anymore. Cairo was corrupt and congested. Westernization had swept the streets of the city from the childhood, cars and fast food places lined the streets now.
The theme of Tania's film was 'reconnect and disconnect'. Tania went to Egypt to reconnect to a lost piece of her life, and disconnect from it once more.
An open discussion was held after the film where the group based the focus on changing in generations and history. The group had ages spanning from 18 to 75, which made for an interesting conversation. Something that ties into Ed. Psych. is that almost everyone is the group agreed that younger generations are lacking personal relationships today, and do not value the story of anther. This problem is all around us, and is slowly changing our society today.
The documentary, followed by discussion was very interesting and tied into many aspects of today's life.