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Moujarad Madina

Hisham Al Zouki
2003 Syria 14 minutes Arabic

The poet Mansour Rajih spent fifteen years in a Yemeni prison, before his expulsion to Norway. “I still carry prison inside me. Prison follows me around like a shadow.” His wife speaks of isolation, friends who take their distance, the fear of the secret services. “Prison is everywhere.” Exile is also a prison, the hell of being a foreigner. This is what his poetry shares with so many others.

Production :
Nirvana Film Production
Editing :
Oyvind Garau
Sound :
Gudmundur Gunnarson
Photography :
Hisham Al Zouki; Amanda Turnander

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