Director Notes
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Gandhi,
Director Notes.
Dubbing Gandhi to Arabic was a dream comes true. Since I was at UCLA film
school. Few students invited the director of Gandhi, Richard Attenborough
to come and show the film
and discuss it with the UCLA community. The director came and it was inspiring.
The most powerful scene of the film when there is a Hindu man full of
rage who comes to Gandhi and asked him what shall he do? The Muslims killed
his boy. So, he went and killed another Muslim boy. He asks Gandhi for
advice!
Gandhi told him that he needs to find a Muslim boy and adapt him as his
son. “but be sure that you raise him as a Muslim” it was on
of the best moments for cinema to me. It’s the art meeting politics
and humanity. So, here we are May 2005, started to create a non violence
movement in Palestine with two community oriented entrepreneurs: Jeff
Skoll of Participant. And Kamran
Elahian, who produced the Olive Harvest.
To get rid of the Israeli occupations, we need to adapt Gandhi’s
teachings.
Sociopolitical change cannot be achieved by violence. Change is a very
complicated and dangerous process that entails a complete transfer from
our rotten patriarchal society that dominates us in the Middle East, to
a modern one. Women's liberation is an essential condition for discarding
the patriarchal structure and replace it with a modernization where the
women are protected equally under the law. Encouraged to study, work and
lead next to the Arab and Muslim man. Only through women liberation we
can achieve peace in the Middle East. This might take place also on the
Israeli side, as it is a state based on military superiority and a strong
macho culture. It simply won’t work without them. We been trying
for centuries and its’ not working!
Recently, all cosmetic changes, like Hammas recent coming to power, Arafat
and his Oslo Accord, Bush and his Roadmaps, are skin deep only, and it’ll
never takes us to a higher plateau as the Semites. The three monistic
faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Three branches in one tree.
