Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …
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Halfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990
Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not …
Omar – Love and Betrayal in an Occupied Land
Let’s do a thought experiment about a movie. In it, an occupying army has a stranglehold on the local populace. …
The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …
Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
The Kite — Over the Lebanese-Israeli Border — a Film
Many years ago I translated The Manuscript of a Crow, a short story by Spanish author Max Aub, the protagonist …
Caramel – A Film from Lebanon
Caramel, Nadine Labaki’s 2007 film from Lebanon, is about as close a film from the Arab world to those Western …