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It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

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There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

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Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

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When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

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Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

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Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

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Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

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It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

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I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

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You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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