LOS ANGELES, 22 October 2007 – Rosie
Malek-Yonan’s latest role in New
Line Cinema’s Rendition is
opposite Reese Witherspoon as an
Egyptian mother, Nuru El-Ibrahimi, whose
son, played by Omar Matwaly, is
kidnapped by the CIA in Oscar winning
director, Gavin Hood’s politically
charged thriller that sweeps through the
world of terrorism and torture.
Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian activist and
author, intimately familiar with her
nation’s struggle as minority Christians
in the Middle-East. With the
publication of her book, The Crimson
Field [http://www.thecirmsonfield.com]
in 2005, Malek-Yonan brought the
Assyrian Genocide to the limelight.
While Armenians are awaiting the next
step by the U.S. House of
Representatives to recognize the
Genocide, Malek-Yonan strives to set the
record straight that the Assyrians and
Greeks were also a part of the Genocide
by the Ottoman Turks during WWI, wherein
the Assyrians lost two-thirds of their
population.
Due to her expertise on the ongoing
Assyrian Genocide, as evident from her
book, The Crimson Field, on the
suggestion of famed Oscar winning
director, Terrence Malick, in 2006
Malek-Yonan testified on Capitol Hill
about the plight of the Assyrian
Christians in Iraq.
Rendition premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival in
early September 2007 and is now in
theatres worldwide. The film also stars
Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Peter
Sarsgaard, and Alan Arkin. Film Critic,
Roger Ebert, gave the film four out of
four stars, saying that, “Rendition is
valuable and rare. It is a movie about
the theory and practice of two things:
torture and personal responsibility. And
it is wise about what is right, and what
is wrong.”
Media Contact for Rosie Malek-Yonan
Trip Miller
The Trip Miller Company tripmiller@sbcglobal.net
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