Arab immigrants stuck in socio-political limbo: Iraqi-Italian director
di Nadia Mayen Al Arabiya
"My name is Said Mahran, and I am an Italian like you," said the protagonist of Sta Per Piovere (It's About To Rain), by Iraqi-Italian director Haider Rashid, who described second generation immigrants as being stuck in a socio-political limbo.
The movie tackles issues of cultural and legal straddling that many like fictitious Mahran encounter.
Mahran, the son of an Algerian immigrant is faced with the dilemma of returning to Algeria - a country he has never visited - or remaining as an illegal immigrant, following the bread factory director's suicide; the place where Mahran works and relies on for his residency visa. [...]
di Nadia Mayen, articolo completo (4540 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Al Arabiya 8 novembre 2012
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