syria &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:syria @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:32:57 +0200 المخدوعون [Al-makhdu'un / The Dupes] (Tawfiq Saleh, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pndm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" المخدوعون [Al-makhdu'un / The Dupes] (Tawfiq Saleh, 1972)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" النَّكْبَة/div div class="img" Al-makhdu'un (1972)/div div class="caption" The three men on top of the water truck (via). DP: Bahgat Heidar./div div class="txt" Starting over "A man with no country, will have no grave in the Earth, I forbid you to leave." ### – opening quote (via) A few years after the start of the Nakba, three generations hope to make a new life for themselves. In the steel belly of a water truck, the men travel Palestine into Iraq, then crossing the desert towards the promised land, Kuwait. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #TawfiqSaleh #GhassanKanafani #MohamedKhairHalwany #BassamLotfy #SalehKhalqy #AbdulRahmanAlRashi #SolhyAlWadi #BahgatHeidar #refugees #emigrants #drama #diaspora #Palestine #Nakba #BookAdaptation #Syria #1970s/div /section ]]>

المخدوعون [Al-makhdu'un / The Dupes] (Tawfiq Saleh, 1972)

Nov

2

النَّكْبَة

Al-makhdu'un (1972)

The three men on top of the water truck (via). DP: Bahgat Heidar.

Starting over*

“A man with no country, will have no grave in the Earth, I forbid you to leave.”

– opening quote (via)

A few years after the start of the Nakba, three generations hope to make a new life for themselves. In the steel belly of a water truck, the men travel Palestine into Iraq, then crossing the desert towards the promised land, Kuwait.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TawfiqSaleh #GhassanKanafani #MohamedKhairHalwany #BassamLotfy #SalehKhalqy #AbdulRahmanAlRashi #SolhyAlWadi #BahgatHeidar #refugees #emigrants #drama #diaspora #Palestine #Nakba #BookAdaptation #Syria #1970s

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