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Zohan Banned From Arab Nations

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2008-08-18 20:18:34 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Arab states thanks to censorship. We get the following scoop from the professionals at Variety Arab auds wont be getting the chance to mess with Adam Sandler after his laffer about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict You Dont Mess With The Zohan was blocked from Arab cinemas While censorship has eased slightly across the Arab world in recent...
 
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2008 AFFMichael Hawley's Preview

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2008-10-14 10:08:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Arab Film Festivals in recent years. But the fact remains that the first, the biggest anddare I saythe best North American festival of films from the Arab-speaking world and its Diaspora remains right here in the Bay Area. Now in its 12th year, the 2008 Arab Film Festival ("AFF") begins this Thursday, October 16 and continues at various...
 
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Spotlight on Africa

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2007-12-12 00:41:00 by Sachin G. in Scribbles and Ramblings
...Arab North African counterparts, much like how Egyptian cinema and literature dominates its Northern African neighbours. In fact, for the longest time it was Egyptian film that dominated the entire Arab world. But in recent years, other nations such as Tunisia and even a few of the Middle Eastern countries have started making in-roads towards...
 
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2008 MVFF31Michael Hawley's Quick Takes

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2008-09-30 10:20:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Arab widow Salma ( The Visitor 's lovely Hiam Abbass) tends to her family's ancestral lemon orchard. When Israel's Defense Minister moves in next door and the trees are targeted as a security risk, a battle of wills leads both parties all the way to the Supreme Court. An engaging and entertaining film, marred only by some minor plot...
 
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War With Iran, Edited

2008-10-01 07:47:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
 
...Arab support, U.S. and Israel must assure that every step being taken to avoid war. If war comes, U.S. must be ready for retaliation: damage to offshore drilling platforms; damage to undersea energy valves, gauges, pipelines; threats against shipping in Strait of Hormuz; attacks against power generation and desalination plants along coasts....
 
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AFF08Closing Questions

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2008-11-01 11:50:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Arab Film Festival to detail what emerged as excellent in this year's edition. First and foremost, I must single out the accomplishments of Artistic Director Sonia El-Feki who hasfor the fourth year in a rowdelivered the best of Mideast cinema(s) to the West Coast. But it is not only her acquisition and choice of content that has made her...
 
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Welcome Back!

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2007-09-04 06:30:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Arab Film Festival (October 18-28) will be screening a Tunisian documentary about the making of a video called Tarzan of the Arabs . That must be nothing other than one of my very favorite films seen at Sundance earlier this year, Nejib Belkadhi's VHS-Kahloucha . It follows a truly DIY filmmaker named Moncef Kahloucha, who puts together...
 
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Holocaust 2000

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2007-07-02 21:17:00 by N. Kuiper in The Devil's Honey
...Arab assassin (Massimo Foschi), whose target was supposed to be Robert But theres more opposition. The new Prime Minister of the Middle Eastern country thinks that the nuclear plant isnt safe enough and wants to cancel the order. Robert and Angel start extensive tests to prove everythings safe, but the computer gives a strange...
 
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Code Well Known, or How to Build a Better Blog-a-Thon

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2006-02-13 09:58:31 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...Arab" and "Young Arab," played by Maurice Bénichou (Majid) and Walid Afkir (Majid's son). There will be more, take the Vegas odds It was a helluva thing when the first film blog-a-thon -- many of whose loose line-up of members discuss and debate movies regularly without ever meeting in real life -- tackled Showgirls together last month. For...
 
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O Hell to the No

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2007-11-30 12:11:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...Arab (Saïd Taghmaoui of La Haine and Hideous Kinky ) in the middle of the early stages of the war for Jerusalem. Im not denying that the continuing struggle between the Arabs and Jews in Israel wouldnt make for gripping cinema, but it sure doesnt show here in a film as painfully laughable as O Jerusalem The religious struggle was tackled in...
 
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