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| The Strangers’ Dust |
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Directed by:
Samir Zekra
Script:
Samir Zekra(a novel by Faisal Khartash)
Camera:
Hanna Ward
Music:
Jarayer Ranisian
Duration:
150 m/colour
Year:
1998
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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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