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...walks briskly down these dusty streets checking on his men distributed across 30 checkpoints, he is joined by Colonel Abdel-Rida Shwaya of the Iraqi police's 7th Brigade. The young sheikh cuts a striking figure, clad in a crisp, white dishdasha and matching headdress. His weather-beaten face, his thick, black mustache and the tan bandolier draped across his chest give him the look of an Arabic Pancho Villa. Neither man knows if any of Dora's SOIs will be part of the 20% absorbed by the security forces. There are 300 more Sunni patrolmen than there are Iraqi...
...Public Enemy Number One, Part 1 Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, from the book L'Instinct de mort by Jacques Mesrine. With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis. From France...
...This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary career that spanned nearly six decades making movies, myths and trouble...
That is a direction the security-obsessed Mubarak regime may find difficult to take. In the Brotherhood's 80-year history, its members have been involved in several attempts on the life of modern Egypt's founding President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s; earlier the Brotherhood was implicated in the assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Nuqrashi...
...London show's most moving exhibits are those that hide their creators' desperation. The pretty jewelry boxes built for wives, and Adel Abdel Bary's cards for his daughter, Rahma, decked with bright hearts, flowers, and "I Love You's" aren't art. But seen as a whole, the show Captivated is as eloquent about the grey, ghostly nature of 21st century warfare as any true artist could hope to be. The show, at 12 Old Street in London, runs until July...