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Set during the time of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, Mohamad is an Egyptian boy in his early teens. Confused and disheartened by his life, failing in school, with an absentee father and a mother who struggles to earn a poor living as a housemaid, he is increasingly drawn to embrace Islamic fundamenta...

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Corporate Authors: Misr International Films, Mīdyān lil-Intāj, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Typecast Films (Firm)
Other Authors: Khoury, Gabriel (Producer), Khoury, Marianne, 1958- (Producer), Mascaro, Marie-Françoise (Producer), Ḥatātah, ʻĀṭif (Director, Screenwriter), Ḥumaydah, Maḥmūd, Badr, Sawsan (Actor), Azmi, Ahmed (Actor), ʻAfīfī, Manāl (Actor), Salīm, Aḥmad Fuʼād
Format: Video DVD
Language:Arabic
Language Notes:In Arabic with English subtitles.
Published: [Cairo] : Misr International Films, [2007]
Edition:Widescreen format.
Subjects:
Teenage boys > Egypt > Drama.
Mothers and sons > Egypt > Drama.
Islamic fundamentalism > Egypt > Drama.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Drama.
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Islamic fundamentalism.
Mothers and sons.
Motion pictures.
Teenage boys.
Egypt.
1991
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Egyptian.
Motion pictures, French.
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Summary:Set during the time of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, Mohamad is an Egyptian boy in his early teens. Confused and disheartened by his life, failing in school, with an absentee father and a mother who struggles to earn a poor living as a housemaid, he is increasingly drawn to embrace Islamic fundamentalism as a seeming solution to the uncertainty of adolescence, his sexual awakening, and limited future. As Mohamed becomes increasingly tied to the philosophies and apparent friendships of his new fundamentalist teachings, the film illustrates the strong pull that fundamentalism can exert on impoverished and disempowered youth.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; stereo.; widescreen.
Audience:Not rated.
Awards:Bahrain Film Festival: First Prize; Thessaloniki Film Festival: Best Screenplay & Best Actress; Montpellier Film Festival: Grand Prix.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Samir Bahzan ; music, Hisham Nazih ; editing, Dalia El Nasser.