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Feb 2, 2010 · The Israeli movie “Ajami,” one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film, takes its name from a rough neighborhood in Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv.
Jun 19, 2010 · Using non-professional actors, Ajami 's strands give an unusually nuanced insight to life in Israel, its confusion of identities and passions. Intelligently, the directors offer no glib solutions ...
Jan 29, 2010 · But everything else about the film, a tribal crime drama called “Ajami,” is utterly unexpected: It is mostly in Arabic; it was co-written and directed by two novices, a Jew and an Arab; the ...
Ajami. Two teenage brothers Omar and Nasri get caught up in a blood feud between warring clans while local policeman Dando desperately seeks his soldier brother, missing in action. Malek is a naive, illegal Palestinian worker who gets on the wrong side of a drug deal, and pleasure-seeking Binj just wants to leave it all behind for a quiet life ...
Feb 3, 2010 · Dave S Ajami is a film that refuses to take sides or pass judgement of any kind. Set in Jaffna, Israel, the movie documents the difficulty of day-to-day life in a society that turns its back on ...
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Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost ...
Ajami ( Arabic: العجمي, Hebrew: עג'מי) is a predominantly Arab neighborhood in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, situated south of Old Jaffa and north of the Jabaliyya neighborhood on the Mediterranean Sea . It developed in the late 19th century following the demolition of the city walls of Jaffa, and by the 1920s was a densely populated urban area.
