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Wonderful
Since the previous reviewer gave such a good synopsis of this film I will simply say it's a wonderful achievement that's definitely worth your time. Through its various plot lines it reveals several examples of the extremely complex workings of Palestinian society and its troubled intersections with Israeli police. This is not a happy film, but it is engrossing. And might I suggest you stick with it from start to finish, because if you engage in chatter while viewing it, or get up to take a restroom break, you may miss essential elements of the story that will leave you completely in the dark for the remainder of the film (which happened to a friend of mine who accompanied me to a theatrical screening - he took a restroom break for five crucial minutes of the convoluted story and was completely lost when he returned).Finally, the previous reviewer said this film was co-directed by two Israelis, but I was told that one of the directors is Israeli and the other...
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May 17, 2010 (Minneapolis, MN United States) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5

Best Israeli film made to date
In the genre of the great Brazilian urban films City of God and City Below, and genius Italian neo-realism cinema of Rosselini and DeSica, this is a gripping Israeli neo-realistic crime art film that explores the tensions of life amongest the ethnic melting pot that comprises the population of Israel: Jews, Muslim and Christian Israeli-Arabs. Steering away from Middle East politics for a welcome change, all groups are portrayed with great humanity and understanding played by an excellent cast of non-professional actors trained for this film in a very unique style shown in the Special Features section. Interestingly, these Israeli-Arabs, residents of a Jaffa slum bordering Tel Aviv speak Arabic richly laced with Hebrew words and phrases. Excellent film that I recommend highly. Other than I Love You Rosa, this is probably the best film to come out of Israel, at least in the past 20 years, and it's too bad it didn't win a well deserved Oscar for Best Foreign Film. I loved it both times I...
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September 4, 2010 (Los Angeles) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

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Shakespearian in its scope and themes - revenge, loyalty, hope and despair - Ajami draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors. Top to learn more

Walking the Tightrope
I rented "Ajami" because it was a recent Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee which has been about as good a recommendation as I can think of for a film. "Ajami" lived up to those expectations and then some. The film, as I understand it, is about Palestinians living in or near Israel. I understand from other reviews that this is an Israeli film which gives me pause to consider. I cannot speak to the authenticity of its' portrayal of the different communities so I leave those potential criticisms to more authoritative reviewers. For me, I was drawn into a sense of reality that I readily accepted. In doing so, I was able to truly enjoy "Ajami". Most every character in "Ajami" has their own shortcomings. There are no good guys vs. bad guys although there are some better and some worse. The life style we see in "Ajami" is problematic on many levels and I concluded that revealing these challenges is the purpose of the film. At times there are unfinished issues in the movie while...
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December 19, 2010 (Williston, ND United States) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4

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May 17, 2010 (Minneapolis, MN United States) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5

September 4, 2010 (Los Angeles) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

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Studio: Kino International Release Date: 08/24/2010 Top to learn more

December 19, 2010 (Williston, ND United States) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4

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Ajami [Blu-ray]

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May 17, 2010 (Minneapolis, MN United States) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5

September 4, 2010 (Los Angeles) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

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December 19, 2010 (Williston, ND United States) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4

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Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey

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(...) I know very little about Arabic literature and poetry, and I have not read extensively about the "Middle East." Once the bar is set at that level, however, I found this book quite approachable.The Dream Palace of the Arabs focusses on a particular time and space in the Arab world--the brief rise of Nasserism and nationalism generally and its subsequent collapse into bitterness. There is much great contemporary relavance in this 1998 work.Ajami gives us Beirut and Lebanon, both before and during the terrible war; and he takes us into its rich literary world. He discusses the First and Second Gulf Wars [Iran-Iraq war and Desert Storm], explains the subtext of shia/sunni conflict, tells us a bit about Kuwait and a great deal about Saddam Hussein.My favorite part of the book is the chapter "In the Land of Egypt." The last chapter "The Orphaned Peace" takes us to the heart of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, post-Oslo to the birth of the...
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December 22, 2001 (Washington, DC) | Helpful Votes: 47 | Rating: 5

Obituary for a modernizing generation
The extremism that seems to pervade the Middle East is neither the region's predestined endpoint nor is it a historical inevitability-rather, it is a condition that sprung out from the failure of a great generation of reformers and free-thinkers that lived in the middle of the twentieth century, and whose passing away by the 1990s marked the triumph of theocracy and backwardness in the Middle East."The Dream Palace of the Arabs" is the sequel to the "Arab Predicament," which Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese professor at Johns Hopkins, published in 1980; back then, Mr. Ajami was younger and "approached [his] material more eager to judge." In the "Arab Predicament," he bemoaned the Arab political experience; in "The Dream Place of the Arabs" he tries to "appreciate what had gone into the edifice that Arabs had built."This literary journey chronicles the birth of a generation of modernizing Arabs that fought and lost the case for modernity. The history of the past seventy...
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September 28, 2004 (Sacramento, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 26 | Rating: 5

Insightful examination of the modern Middle East
Because he lacks the flash and skill at sound bites of some of his more well known colleagues and does not crave to spend time on CNN, Professor Ajami?s work is frequently overlooked. That is a great loss for everyone trying to understand the Arab world, particularly in these times of growing tension and violence. Ajami asks a profound and much debated question, why did modernity seem to pass the Arab world by? ?Scholars,? such as Edward Said, argue that everything is the fault of the West and imperialism and that nothing intrinsic in Middle Eastern and Islamic culture deserve the blame. In contrast, Ajami takes seriously the fact that prior to the enlightenment, Islamic society was both intellectually and materially superior to West. Indeed, after World War II, with a fair number of Western educated citizens and a burgeoning middle class, many observers say the Middle East having a bright future, likely brighter in fact, than those currently economic and political successes,...
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December 9, 2002 | Helpful Votes: 40 | Rating: 5

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From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous century in Arab political thought, history, and poetry, Ajami takes us from the ruins of Beirut's once glittering metropolis to the land of Egypt, where struggle rages between a modernist impulse and an Islamist insurgency, from Nasser's pan-Arab nationalist ambitions to the emergence of an uneasy Pax Americana in Arab lands, from the triumphalism of the Gulf War to the continuing anguished debate over the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords.

For anyone who seeks to understand the Middle East, here is an insider's unflinching analysis of the collision between intellectual life and political realities in the Arab world today. Top to learn more

The Arab world, writes Palestinian scholar Fouad Ajami, has been beset for years by divisions: religious, social, economic, and political. Many of these divisions came to the fore during the time of the Persian Gulf War, a "foreigners' rescue" in response to Saddam Hussein's attempt to seize Kuwait, which was, Ajami hints, in part a reaction against Iranian designs on the Gulf. Even those Arab intellectuals who supported Allied intervention at the time are now questioning whether it was the best solution to what they believe was a local problem. Ajami writes of the role of some of these intellectuals in shaping the culture of the region, among them the Lebanese writer Khalil Hawi, who committed suicide in the wake of Israel's invasion of his country in 1982. He also examines the terror that religious fundamentalists have been visiting on secular states such as Egypt, "a country with a remarkable record of political stability" that, Ajami believes, will be able to ride out the present storm. Ajami's essays will be most revealing for students of contemporary politics and Arabic history. Top to learn more

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Under The Bombs

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A different kind of road movie . . .
Like Haskell Wexler filming "Medium Cool" during events on the streets of Chicago in 1968, French-Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi takes his cameras into war-torn South Lebanon, following two fictional characters in a very real world of bombed-out devastation. The result is a shocking and compelling docudrama, where nonprofessional supporting actors play themselves in the tenuous aftermath of 33 straight days of bombing and shelling. Never amateurish or clumsy, the film assumes the structure of a road movie, in which a taxi driver agrees to drive a distraught mother from Beirut to the village where her son has been living with her sister.Leveled buildings line the roads, and shattered bridges prevent their progress. Suspense builds as a bond between the two characters grows, made especially poignant by the fact that one is Christian and the other Muslim. This film held me all the way to its galvanizing end. The performances of Nada Abou Farhat, as the woman, and...
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August 1, 2009 (Los Angeles) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 5

A truthful movie about war
This is a movie that had to be done. Under the Bombs is unique. It can not be described as fiction because the background for the central plot is the cruel reality of another senseless war. It is not a documentary because two professional actors give a human face to the detached portrayal of war that we so frequently see in the news. Both Nada Abou Farhat as well as George Khabbaz provide an authentic performance of the two central characters in the movie. The story revolves around Zeina, a mother searching for her missing sister and son, and Toni, a taxi driver trying to make ends meet in the simultaneously war ravaged and beautiful country of Lebanon. The realism is complete. The burials, the cries, the anger, the explosions, the ruined houses, and the destroyed bridges are all real. The filming was done under unique duress and dangerous circumstances. There is no cosmetic effort to moderate the ugliness of the senseless destruction of civilian property and lives or attempts to...
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June 14, 2009 (NJ, USA) | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

a tense journey through a ravaged landscape
A mother's search for her son in the immediate aftermath of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon provides a vehicle for the viewer to see the destruction and hear from the victims firsthand. For some reason I had expected a somewhat detached semi-documentary, but instead this film drags you into the horrors of a senseless war in the desperate efforts to locate the missing son and sister. It is compelling, haunting, and especially relevant now that Israel is doing the exact same thing in Gaza.Doubtlessly speaking for many of those caught in the crossfires, the lead actor laments, "This is not MY war," as she seeks to understand the tragedy all around her.
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December 31, 2008 (NY) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

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Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 05/05/2009 Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Nr Top to learn more

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Fouad Ajami is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co chair of the Herb and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, Hoover Institution. We can never claim that our Afghan clients said sweet things about us in public, we can never cite them paying tribute to the sacrifices of the strangers who came into their midst to emancipate them from the barbarism of the Taliban. ” The Afghan ruler had no incentive for reform, the American paymaster said, Karzai would persist with his ways, and the “U. S. would be stuck tending to the country for him. The lion doesn’t want his children to be taken away by someone else in the night, the lion won’t let it happen. The leaders who waged it were practically accused of war crimes, they were said to have lied their way into Mesopotamia. They have done all they could for the Afghans, soldiered on in our longest war. He fights a war there, but the land and the people don’t move him or speak to him. The Afghans had become a dependent people, the foreign handouts had altered their age-old ways. The Afghans want us to stay, so it is long past time to haul up the gear and leave the Hindu Kush to its ways. Our republic is big and rich and forgetful enough to wage war in Afghanistan and pay it no heed. It is odd, a people who exalted war, and supposedly gloried in the independence of their mountains, had no interest in the departure of the Western armies.

Tahrir Square gave us the euphoria of a delirious crowd craving liberty, Libya had its images – a macabre one in particular, the dispatch of the tyrant – but Syria is a crowded urban society, and the cell phone cameras are everywhere. Americans may resent the burden that comes with our power, our commander-in-chief may want to keep the foreign world at bay, but there can be no escaping the responsibility that comes with our calling. Each place is its own world, yet Syria is all these places of grief. The Assad tyranny is living on borrowed time, the very laws of gravity conspire against it. It may crush the desperate people in Bab Amr, the restive Sunni neighborhood in Homs, it may level the old resort down of Zabadani, but the tyranny has... The rebellion has shattered the foundations of the dictatorship, but there is still at play, at the very heart of the regime, a conviction that the tide could yet be turned, and that the crowds and the army defectors could be brought back to... In the Obamaian world, the choices are simplified by our leaders, and in the most contrived of ways: elsewhere I described that worldview as a choice between boots on the ground or head in the sand. It is high time that we broke with the excuse that there is no “return address” for the opposition as Secretary of State Clinton once opined. There is vast wealth in the Sunni Arab states, and genuine popular outrage at the barbarisms of the Alawi regime. Of course Syria is not Libya, nor is it Bosnia, nor Kosovo, nor is it Rwanda.

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Connecting students on campus

“We're trying to make college life easy,” Rashid Ajami a senior at Georgetown and co-founder of Campus Society, along with his cousin Oliver Muller, said. “We found it a bit difficult to get things done on campus. We're trying to concentrate everything
America and Arabs in Search of New Future

You cannot buy intellect, leadership traits and visions with oil revenues. Those still maintaining ruthless governance in the Arab world must change and make room for educated and intelligent people of the new generation to assume roles and
Palestinians to fan Israeli-Arab Earth Day disorders Friday. Damascus to pitch in

Taking a hand in Israeli Arab protests for the first time, the Palestinian Authority is organizing a march in Jaffa from the port to Ajami Square. The main event of this year's Earth Day will take place in the Galilee town of Deir Hanna.