Word: assad
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...instance, on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Rice was asked about the Syrian leader Bashar Assad?s torrent of criticism of the UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. ?What I?ve seen is, so far, a lot of criticism of the process and a lot of criticism of the investigation,? Rice asserted. ?That just isn?t going to - it?s not going...
That quotidian depiction of terrorism has made Paradise Now controversial, not just among Israelis. "Extremist Palestinians say by humanizing these people, there is nothing holy in them," says Abu-Assad. "My opinion is they are human beings, whether you like it or not." And like it or not, the need to understand them didn't begin with 9/11, nor will it end anytime soon...
...strike some as America bashing; the attempts to flesh out terrorists, excuse making. But making them human shows us they are not superhuman: they make mistakes, they get emotional, they have doubts. Each of them may, at some point, be stopped. In Paradise Now, from Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, Said (Kais Nashif) seems like an ordinary slacker auto mechanic until he is chosen to undertake a suicide bombing, which he volunteered for long before. Said comes across not as a news-article composite but as a believable, mixed-up young man. In the U.S. he might have been...
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad...
...harsh visual description of inequality, Abu-Assad forces the viewer to consider the conditions that push people in the direction of violence. The film doesn’t legitimize violence, nor does it take an overtly political stance in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is aware of the issues but never didactic. Rather, the goal is to challenge our natural impulse to dehumanize suicide bombers as one-dimensionally evil...