In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. "Ali Hakim" and "Ali Ababwa," refugees from the imaginary country "Agraba," attempt to seduce their audience into providing ...
In Autumn 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This ...
Inspired by the novel "Adrift on the Nile" by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, "Adrift" is set against the backdrop of a region burdened by the gorgon-head legacies of colonialism, corruption, and violent dictatorship. It is about a group of secular Egyptians at the epicenter of the West's ever-accelerating and utterly ahistorical imperial ...
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