MARE NOSTRUM — THE ARAB WORLD

“Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” 

— Yasser Arafat, speech to the UN, 1974

I was fortunate to travel the most misunderstood part of the world for a month, and this is what i got in return : A head full of beautiful thoughts, feelings and experiences ; enough to break the western cliché that the mass media wants to set about the Arab World.

Directed by Stanislas Giroux
Music by Fran Soto
Narration by Nathan Cahen

Warm hugs to :
Hafid, Rachid, Marwan, Kaadori, Saied, Seyf, Belgacem, Ahmed, Abdullah, Mohammad, George, Sari, Christ, Asam, Shouha, Boudy, Ali, Amishai, Lawi, Mohammed, and all the amazing peeps i met and forgot names! May you hospitality and hope be kept for a peaceful future in the land of the cradle of civilization.