Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis has been watching some of them.
We’ve witnessed the ‘Arab Spring’ erupting on our small screens. Eruption, sadly, is what we generally see – television is superficially drawn to dramatic and violent footage. It’s the big screen and films made by the region’s own directors that give us a deeper, more reflective understanding of social and political movements.
We see how societies of the region see themselves – and how alike they are to those of us living on other continents.
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