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...changes in the attitudes of a traditionally tolerant Danish society. The current conservative government, for example, rules in coalition with the openly anti-immigrant Danish People's Party. In response, a new political party - dubbed the New Alliance - was set up in May, electing its leader, Syrian-born Nasser Khader, as the country's first-ever member of parliament from the 8% of the population whose origins are foreign. And, in the seven weeks since the Christiania riots, the New Alliance has become Denmark's third largest party, boasting 20,000 members and polling 15 percent of the popular vote...
...Danish society used to a be a consensus society," says Khader. "But in the last few years Danish politicians [have] forgotten the centre. We want to go back to the middle of the road...
...film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other half, the film focuses on the station?s headquarters in Qatar, where its program director, Samir Khader, rails eloquently at U.S. media, then adds, ?Mind you, if I were offered a job at Fox News, I?d take...
...Ministry. Jordanian secret police keep close tabs on the exiles in Iraqi-dominated areas; Jamal has been interviewed once. Anyone who causes trouble is deported. "We're trying to apply the rule of law and ensure [Iraqi exiles] will abide by the rule of law," says government spokeswoman Asma Khader. For now, Jamal silently endures the sight of his former tormentors living the high life. He has a couple of months left on his visa; he has no idea what he'll do when the visa expires, and his money will run out even sooner than that. "It's chilling...
...plot is simple: two lovers live on opposite sides of al-Ram checkpoint; the man tries to be with the woman when he's not at his dying father's bedside. Since the man is played by Suleiman, 42, and his lover by his ex-lover, Palestinian journalist Manal Khader, and since Suleiman's father did die as he was writing the screenplay, this is clearly a kind of autobiographical satire. "Cinema is a form of striptease for me," says Suleiman. "I jot down very personal moments of everyday life when they tickle me. There is no message. The minute...