Sami Metwasi

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Sami Metwasi

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Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Layabout, clandestine lover, small-time hood – Mousa has all kinds of skills. A refugee camp resident, this Palestinian does not give a damn about his father’s hard-won permit to work legally in the Israeli part of Jerusalem – he would rather earn a living stealing Israeli cars and selling them to Palestinian fences. Mousa is convinced that his future lies far away from all the violence and constraints that characterise life in the divided city; his heart, moreover, belongs to a married woman. Following the theft of a Passat one day he is given a brutal goingover by Palestinian militia-men. On closer inspection of the vehicle, he makes a discovery which suddenly makes apolitical Mousa of interest to all sides …
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A middle-aged New York cab driver from Egypt picks up a fellow Egyptian, arriving in the city for the first time, in pursuit of the "American Dream". They share a conversation that will help each of them come to a realization about their life choices.