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Film: The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentlemen
New Asia Cinema: Arab Cinema Panorama


Wednesday, December 13
Room 137, Isenberg School of Management   7:30 pm
Free and open to the public
(Double Feature with Being Osama)
Director: Bader Ben Hirsi, 2000, 76 minute.
This lyrical film introduces us to Bader Ben Hirsi, a British-born Yemeni living in London after his parents’ exile from the Yemen. Bader returns to the Yemen to re-discover his country, its people and traditions. Traveling with an eccentric Englishman Tim Makintosh-Smith, Ben Hirsi sees his ancestral homeland. The film chronicles the two men’s interaction and emerging friendship as they explore the beautiful Yemen countryside.

 
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