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...piety tolerate, let alone patronize, a movie that shows the jiggling hindquarters of a prostitute in hot pants riding a mechanical bull, or, in another scene, two guys rolling around naked at a mortgage brokers' conference? "I don't want to call Borat an 'art' film," said Haddad. "But it is a special film that requires special handling. Watching two men rolling around naked is not acceptable in our culture. Two women? Maybe...
...Haddad decided right away that Borat was not ready for prime time in most of the Middle East, in part because it portrays Kazakhstan as a country rife with incest, rape and disco dancing. "Many of these countries, especially in the Gulf, have economic ties to Khazakstan, and the idea of turning a poor Muslim country into something ridiculous would be insulting. They are not going to understand that that's being exaggerated to make people laugh...
...Instead, Empire distributed the movie only in Haddad's native Lebanon, arguably the most sophisticated media market in the Middle East, where many are familiar with the TV work of Borat's creator, Sasha Baron Cohen. But audience sensibility wasn't the only obstacle in Borat's path: Movies in Lebanon are tightly monitored by a censorship board attached to the General Security Directorate, the country's most powerful intelligence institution. The board has traditionally banned or censored movies that contain anything that might be construed as Israeli propaganda, anything sexually explicit, and anything that might incite or insult...
...financial services and investment banking each make up 27 percent, according to William Wright-Swadel, the director of the OCS. That consulting is a popular career choice is not news to anyone. But the positions aren’t always what you’d expect. When Raja G. Haddad ’05 left Harvard, he was an important member of the university’s artistic community. He was president of the Signet Society, a published poet, and co-founder of the Cinematic, Harvard’s student-run film journal. But when he returned to Harvard Square?...
...goal is to generate ideas that revitalize the Brattle so that they can have a turnaround,” said Raja G. Haddad ’05, an associate consultant at Katzenbach. “It’s an opportunity for brains to come together and to have an action plan...