Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection
Director: Samir Null, Samir
Cast: Ella Shohat, Moussa Houry, Sami Michael, Samir Naqqash, Shimon Ballas
Synopsis:
Cast: Ella Shohat, Moussa Houry, Sami Michael, Samir Naqqash, Shimon Ballas
Synopsis:
In this documentary, Samir Naqqash, travels to Tel Aviv, Israel, to explore the lives of Middle Eastern Jews. There, he finds a small group of Jews from Iraq who were forced to leave their home country, not only for being Jewish but for being communists. In Israel the members of the group face discrimination for their cultural and ethnic heritage. Naqqash explores their feelings of rejection, plus cultural stereotypes and the nature of the conflict between Arabs and Jews.
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