{"id":2646,"date":"2008-07-10T13:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2008-07-10T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:57:15","slug":"2008-7-10-sectarianism-on-and-off-screen-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Sectarianism on and off screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Two Egyptian movie legends, Omar Sharif and Adel Imam, are starring in a new movie\u00a0that addresses sectarian tensions. In &#8220;Hassan and Morcos,&#8221; Adel Imam plays a Christian and Omar Sherif a Muslim who struggle against the extremists within each of their religious communities. As incidents of sectarian violence occur at a seemingly weekly rate, this is a promising and relevant topic&#8211;although I fear the film tows the government&#8217;s tired &#8220;national unity&#8221; line, ignoring real grievances and power imbalances. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mbMc7yMX7ok&amp;feature=user\">trailer<\/a> does show some pretty dramatic and realistic depictions of sectarian riots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the film has been deemed &#8220;controversial.&#8221; Imam, a Muslim, has been criticized for playing a Christian onscreen. The Al Ahram Hebdo reports that a few geniuses have started a Facebook group entitled &#8220;Call to Muslims: Boycott the Christian Adel Imam.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Two Egyptian movie legends, Omar Sharif and Adel Imam, are starring in a new movie\u00a0that addresses sectarian tensions. In &#8220;Hassan and Morcos,&#8221; Adel Imam plays a Christian and Omar Sherif a Muslim who struggle against the extremists within each of their religious communities. As incidents of sectarian violence occur at a seemingly weekly rate, this is a promising and relevant topic&#8211;although I fear the film tows the government&#8217;s tired &#8220;national unity&#8221; line, ignoring real grievances and power imbalances. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mbMc7yMX7ok&amp;feature=user\">trailer<\/a> does show some pretty dramatic and realistic depictions of sectarian riots.\u00a0<br \/>\nOf course, the film has been deemed &#8220;controversial.&#8221; Imam, a Muslim, has been criticized for playing a Christian onscreen. The Al Ahram Hebdo reports that a few geniuses have started a Facebook group entitled &#8220;Call to Muslims: Boycott the Christian Adel Imam.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}