The Arabian Dream

Colour / black and white, video, 80' min

Original languages:
English, Arabic

Subtitles:
Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, French, Farsi, English, Dutch, Chinese, Arabic

Sales remarks:
Additional available subtitles: Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, French, Farsi, English, Dutch, Chinese, Arabic

Director: Maher Al Sabbagh
D.O.P: Maher Al Sabbagh
Editor: Maher Al Sabbagh & Roel van Toer
Producer: Maher Al Sabbagh

Synopsis
It must be a total drag when your background is constantly harassed in the media or being stepped on in daily conversations all around you. Maher Al Sabbagh, a Dutch Syrian filmer decided to, instead of screaming 'You guys don't know what you're talking about!!!', make a film about the true origins of the arabic anger with the rest of the world, their struggle with ongoing colonisation, the israel-issue and the way radicalism began, but also about the story of Mohammed, the ever existing hunger for science and knowledge and the struggle the arabs have in finding each other in the pursuit of realising an old and maybe utopic dream: the realisation of a United Arabia.

Being an arab speaker himself, yet influenced by a western sense of individuality, Maher has interviewed people from all over the arab world and has mixed these interviews with stock material to hand a sort of new,mixed look on Arab society by re-telling history from a middle eastern point of view.

Discover not just the rich cultural background we all heard of but could have never known about if it hadn't been for the roman catholic crusades, but also the 'dark-secret-stuff' that happened around the era of the industrial revolution that we weren't exactly taught in high school.

A documentary film to not open your eyes, but steer them in a slightly different direction.

Maher Al Sabbagh

www.thearabiandream.com

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