production

EGYPT
Hamid Siamdoust - Co-Producer & Sound
Salma Seyed - Co-Director & Co-Writer
Mohamed Rafti - Actor
Tariq Ali - Actor

YEMEN
Akram Ali al-Hindi - Co-Producer & Co-Writer
Bushra Salameh - Actor
Fatima al-Gatta'a - Actor
Sahar al-Asbahai - Actor
Bilal al-Sonnai - Sound

JORDAN
Mohamed Fozan abu Ghanam - Co-Producer & Camera
Atieq Odah - Actor
Atieq Seliman - Actor
Eid Mohamed - Sound
Sheik Mohamed - Chef

MOROCCO
Myam Berrida - Co-Producer
Aziz el Houbaibi - Actor
Noufissa Benchenida - Actor

Dearest friends,

I've arrived back to an disclosed location in the island of many hills. Safely home. Thanks for the opportunity to think of you when I needed some strength to get through the hard parts and arrive safely home in the same physical body + a microbe or two I met along the way.

Sorry connection in Magraib was via bluetooth and couldn't handle the data.

Morocco was fantastic though more in the next few days!

I got home and the cockroaches were already at the door,

c M c M

Wish I could write more....so much to say and yet my plane of course leaves in a few hours.

At any rate, Mo7 is here with me and feel that I have to correct his last name from last time. The LITERAL translation of his last name is Father of Sheep, but of course Mo7 is not a father yet (Inshala one day) nor does he even know how to raise sheep.

To my dedicated readers,

I am so sorry to have been unable to update as much as I would have liked. You see in Yemen, as the saying goes, one has to be a magician, and pulling the ball through the ring has not been my forte, FILMMAKING HAS! And boy, what a production here!

Working with the dedicated Akram al-Hindi, the Yemen Assistant Director, a most superb collection of footage has been collected.

In a few short hours a la 1AM, we will be embarking to Sana'a Yemen!

It is hard to believe that a week has gone by here in Cairo. I will miss the city and the friends I have made. Though the permission to shoot in the streets was never granted by the government, we re-worked the script so that the entire scene would take place at Giza.

Day 2.5 - Cairo, what can be said about this absolutely enormous city! The streets are absolutely insane. I have been on a large tour of the city seeing much of it...and let me tell you it is HUGE geographically. In all of the kilometers driven, I think I have seen a total of two traffic lights. There are two traffic lights and yet millions of people (at least 16 million if not more) and probably at least a million cars, and yet two traffic lights? Is this efficient or not?