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The Strangers’ Dust
Samir Zekra-The Strangers’ Dust

Directed by: Samir Zekra

Script: Samir Zekra(a novel by Faisal Khartash)

Camera: Hanna Ward

Music: Jarayer Ranisian

Duration: 150 m/colour

Year: 1998

Cast: Bassam Koussa, Usama Ashour, Iman Al-Ghouri, Najwa Kundukji,

Synopsis:

The film is about the  Syrian Arab thinker Abdulrahman Kawakibi (1849-1902) and his struggle against the heavy intellectual heritage  accumulated over four centuries of the Ottoman occupation of Syria.
Kawakibi was born when the ottoman Empire was in a state of decay, with all its method in understanding the world in this world was witnessing the birth of  freedom movements that were growing and expanding.
 The film deals with  the last years in the life of Kawkibi and his assiduous struggle to save his society from the abyss of backwardness and fundamentalism.


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