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When Arabs Danced (2018)

Documentary | 90 minutes
3,83 6 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: Belgium / Egypt

Directed by: Jawad Rhalib

Starst: and Hiam Abbass

IMDb score: 7,7 (57)

Releasedate: 6 September 2018

When Arabs Danced plot

The rich, diverse Arab culture was not always as firmly in the grip of Muslim fundamentalism as it is today. Filmmaker Jawad Rhalib's mother was a belly dancer. In the not so distant past, this Arabic dance stood for sensuality and femininity until fundamentalists labeled dance, music and other artistic expression as unclean. Rhalib was taught that he should be ashamed of his mother. But there are also artists who resist this turnaround and seek an answer to this attack on (artistic) freedom.

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Until the early 1970s, the Arab world was generally considerably more liberal, as evidenced by fragments from (now banned) Egyptian films in which film stars dance, kiss and show their most beautiful and sexiest side. Some 50 years later, the influence of fundamentalist Muslims is so widespread that women in a number of countries are required to wear a veil, hijab or burqa and that music and dancing are 'haram'. Rhalib shows us a press conference of Egyptian President Nasser in 1958, which shows how absurd the obligation of a veil was at that time. The spontaneous reaction of one of the female absentees is telling. A confrontational, painful reminder of how easily social freedoms can be taken away by a repressive system. Rhalib extends the underlying issues to the present by following the discussions of a Brussels theater company about the fear of reprisals from Islamists for their latest play.

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