Nadim Sawalha

...film there, allowing the story's gradual tension to practically sneak up on the audience. Veteran Jordanian character actor Nadim Sawalha stars in the title role, a widowed man set in his daily routine: He scrubs floors and replaces garbage...

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...wears it home. This prompts a neighborhood boy to ask about his adventures as a pilot. "I'm not a pilot," the old man, Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha), testily responds, shutting his door. But the next night there are a half-dozen children at the...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Nadim Sawalha (right, with Rana Sultan) plays the title role in "Captain Abu Raed," a janitor who gets mistaken for a pilot at Amman's airport. (Neoclassics Films) Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha)...

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Movie Review | 'Captain Abu Raed': A Janitor's Flights of Fancy Nadim Sawalha, in a pilot's cap, regaling children as the title character in "Captain Abu Raed. " A Janitor's Flights of Fancy The hat makes the man in the Jordanian film...

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...he itemises the four categories into which racists divide humanity: white, black, Chinese and "anyone who can be played by the actor Nadim Sawalha". That reductive worldview is defensible, says Herring, because it leads us closer to...

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Review: "Captain Abu Raed" Janitor's ruse hides his true gallantry Nadim Sawalha as Abu Raed and Udey Al-Qiddissi as Tareq in NeoClassics Films' Captain Abu Raed. (NeoClassics Films) "Captain Abu Raed," an unaffected melodrama from...

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...feels trapped in his life. He works at the airport, so he's on the verge of the world, but he never gets to travel." Matalqua cast Nadim Sawalha, an experienced British-Jordanian performer, in the title role. The other cast members had...

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Article:Review: 'Abu Raed' a humanistic melodrama:/c/a/2009/07/23/MVRA18T8G8. DTL Drama. Written and directed by Amin Matalqa. With Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous. In Arabic, English and French, with English subtitles. (Not...

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...he's a pilot and have him tell stories of his adventures in the sky. Jordan's Oscar entry for best foreign language film stars Nadim Sawalha. In Arabic with English subtitles. San Francisco and Berkeley only. "G-Force" (PG): Guinea pigs and...

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...Canadians. A CHANCE MEETING Matalqa wrote the script with one person in mind for the lead role: Nadim Sawalha. Matalqa first met Sawalha when he was a teenager. Matalqa's father was a pilot on Sawalha's flight to Jordan, where Sawalha was...

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