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Egyptian Filmmaker Faces Wrath of Colleagues Over Israel

(Agence France Presse) - Dozens of Egyptian filmmakers and critics met Sunday to demand that organizers of the Cairo International Film Festival withdraw the sole Egyptian film from the official competition because its director, Khaled Al-Hagar, made a previous film backing normalization of ties with Israel. The group was critical of the 1993 film, "A Barrier That Divides Us," which tells the story of an impossible love between an Egyptian man and young Jewish woman in London.
2004-10-15 00:00:00
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