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The United (film)
''The United'' (Arabic: المتحدين) is an unreleased film produced by Touchstone Pictures. It was conceived as Disney's first ever Arabic-language film, intended primarily for Middle Eastern audiences. Produced by Rachel Gandin, ''The United'' was directed by Amin Matalqa, written by Nizar Wattad, and features performances from Farouk Al-Fishawy, Waleed Zuaiter, Bosaina, and Amir Scandar. It was shot in and around Amman, Jordan in January 2011 by veteran cinematographer Ray Peschke, and edited by Debbie Berman. In addition to an original score by composer, Omar Fadel, the United also features a vocal collaboration between three of the Arab world's best known rappers, Omar Offendum, Deeb, and Salah Edin. Synopsis The film tells the story of a down-and-out Egyptian soccer coach, his former superstar player, and his determined granddaughter as they gather a team of the best youth soccer players from around the Arab world The Arab world ( '), formally the Arab h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosaina
Bosaina is an Egyptian singer-songwriter, producer, art curator, actress, and model. She is the lead vocalist for several bands in the Egyptian electronic music collective Kairo is Koming (KIK). Bosaina participated in the 2014 Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo and starred in ''The United'', the first film by Touchstone Pictures filmed in the Middle East. Career In an interview with Resident Advisor in 2014, Bosaina described taking an Ableton Live production course and using the software to make her first EP. Bosaina has performed with several Cairo-based electronic bands, including Wetrobots, Zuli, and Quit Together, through her involvement with the Kairo Is Koming Collective (KIK). She has toured globally, performing in Lebanon, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, and in the United States at the SXSW Festival. A compilation of her two EPs titled 'New York April – July 2013' was released in 2017 on Discrepant Records. Bosaina has written, produced, directed, and starred i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waleed Zuaiter
Waleed F. Zuaiter (; born January 16, 1971) is a Palestinian-American actor and producer who has performed in on-stage productions in Washington, D.C.; Berkeley, California; and New York City, as well as several film and television productions. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the producer and co-star of '' Omar'' (2013), which was nominated for an Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life and education Zuaiter, an American with Palestinian ancestry, born in 1971 in Sacramento, California, but grew up in Kuwait. He returned to the United States to earn his degree in philosophy and theatre at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.. Career Zuaiter began his acting career with several productions in Washington, before relocating to New York City. On the New York stage, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military, in George Packer's ''Betrayed''. He also has starred in Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Offendum
Omar Offendum is a Syrian American hip-hop artist, designer, poet and peace activist. He was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington, DC, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He tours the world performing internationally at music festivals, lecturing at major academic institutions and fundraising for humanitarian relief organizations. Most recently Offendum has been involved in creating several critically acclaimed songs about the popular democratic uprisings throughout the Middle East & North Africa. He is also working on several new collaborative projects while touring to promote his solo work. Biography Omar Offendum was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended the Islamic Saudi Academy. He graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1999 and went on to attend the University of Virginia School of Architecture. After graduating on the Dean's list in 2003, he moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked at an architecture firm for 10 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic-language Films
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the ... spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply ' (). Arabic is the List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language, third most widespread official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone Pictures Films
Touchstone may refer to: * Touchstone (assaying tool), a stone used to identify precious metals * Touchstone (metaphor), a means of assaying relative merits of a concept Entertainment * ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea * Touchstone (English band), rock group from the U.K. * Touchstone (US-Irish band), Irish-music band from the U.S. * ''The Touchstone'' (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth * ''The Touchstone'' (novella), a novella by Edith Wharton * ''The Touchstone'' (play), an 1817 comedy play by James Kenney * Touchstone (''As You Like It''), a fictional character in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' * Touchstone (Garth Nix character), a fictional character from Garth Nix's ''Old Kingdom trilogy'' * Touchstone (''Stargate SG-1''), an episode of the television series ''Stargate SG-1'' * Touchstone (''Syphon Filter''), a character from the ''Syphon Filter'' games * ''Prem Kahani'' (1937 film), working title ''Touchstone'', an Indian romantic drama fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unreleased Films
Unreleased may refer to: * ''Unreleased'' (Andre Nickatina album), 2001 * ''Unreleased'' (No-Big-Silence album), 2003 *''Unreleased (1998–2010)'', an album by Powderfinger, 2020 *''Groupees Unreleased EP'', or ''Unreleased'', by Celldweller, 2011 * ''Unreleased'', an EP by Nicole Dollanganger, 2014 *Unreleased stop A stop consonant with no audible release, also known as an unreleased stop, checked stop or an applosive, is a plosive with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lack of ..., in phonetics, a plosive consonant without an audible release burst See also * * * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab World
The Arab world ( '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in West Asia and North Africa. While the majority of people in the Arab world are ethnically Arabs, Arab, there are also significant populations of other ethnic groups such as Berbers, Kurds, Somalis and Nubians, among other Demographics of the Arab world, groups. Arabic is used as the lingua franca throughout the Arab world. The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 19 states where Arabs form at least a wiktionary:plurality, plurality of the population. At its maximum it consists of the 22 member states of the Arab League, members of the Arab League, an international organization, which on top of the 19 plurality Arab states also includes the Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking Comoros, and the Cushitic-speaking peoples, Cushitic-speaking Djibouti and Somalia. The region stretches from the Atlantic O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Edin
Abid Tounssi, known by his stage name Salah Edin (born 23 June 1980), is a Dutch Moroccan ex-rapper and actor. Biography Salah Edin gained recognition as a rapper (first in Arabic, then also in Dutch) in the 1990s and broke through to a larger audience in 2006 when he signed with Dutch hip hop label TopNotch. His third album, ''WOII'', was slated for release in September 2011; the title is a reference to World War II, but carries other connotations as well, with the initials also referring to Willem Oltmans and Geert Wilders. That same year, he acted in a short Moroccan film, with another film already finished and a TV series in the making. Edin has had a few encounters with controversy. Politician Geert Wilders (of the PVV) used a photograph of Edin for his 2008 film '' Fitna'' which was critical of the spread of Islam in Europe Islam is the second-largest religion in Europe after Christianity. Although the majority of Muslim communities in Western Europe formed as a res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deeb
Deeb is a common Arabic surname that means "wolf". It may have originated as a nickname for someone who displayed wolf-like characteristics such as courage or fierceness. Notable people with the surname include: * Abdul Azim al-Deeb (1929–2010), professor at Qatar University * Abdallah Deeb (born 1987), Jordanian football player of Palestinian origin * Ahmad Deeb (born 1987), Syrian football player * Amer Deeb (born 1980), Jordanian footballer * Dale Deeb (born 1990), South African cricketer *Freddy Deeb (born 1955), professional poker player * G. Michael Deeb, Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan * Grace Deeb (born 1975), Lebanese singer from Beirut who began her career at the age of fourteen * Khalid Deeb, professional rugby league footballer * Loai Deeb (born 1975) Swedish Palestinian politician, leader of Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) and a former member of the municipal council of Sola, Norway * Mahdi Abu Deeb (born 1962), the founder and leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is located along the country's western border within the Jordan Rift Valley. Jordan has a small coastline along the Red Sea in its southwest, separated by the Gulf of Aqaba from Egypt. Amman is the country's capital and List of cities in Jordan, largest city, as well as the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, most populous city in the Levant. Inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period, three kingdoms developed in Transjordan (region), Transjordan during the Iron Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century BC, the Arab Nabataeans established Nabataean Kingdom, their kingdom centered in Petra. The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman period saw the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farouk Al-Fishawy
Farouk El-Fishawy (; 5 February 1952 – 25 July 2019) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was known for '' Al-Mashbouh'' (1981). Early life He was born as Mohamed Farouk El-Fishawy in Sirs El-Layan, Monufia Governorate on 5 February 1952. He was one of the youngest of his 3 brothers and 2 sisters. His father died when he was 11 years old and his elder brother Rashad El-Fishawy took care of him and raised him. He received his bachelor's degree in general medicine and before that he received his Bachelor of Arts from Ain Shams University. Career He started his career in the 1970s and starred in dozens of films and television series. He worked in more than 130 films, including ''al-Qatila'' (1991), ''al-Tufan'' (1985), ''al-Rasif'' (1993), ''Mutarada Fi al-Mamnu'' (1993), ''Ghadan Sa'antaqem'' (1980), ''Hanafy al-Obaha'' (1990), ''La Tasalni Man Ana'' (1984), ''Siriyun Lilghaya'' (1986), ''Nessa Khalf al-Qodban'' (1986), ''Qahwat al-Muaridi'' (1981), ''el-Mar'a el-Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amman
Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant region, the fifth-largest city in the Arab world, and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. The earliest evidence of settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC in 'Ain Ghazal, home to the world's oldest statues of the human form. During the Iron Age, the city was known as ''Rabat Aman'', the capital of the Ammonite Kingdom. In the 3rd century BC, the city was renamed ''Philadelphia'' and became one of the ten Greco-Roman cities of the Decapolis. Later, in the 7th century AD, the Rashidun Caliphate renamed the city Amman. Throughout most of the Islamic era, the city alternated between periods of devastation and periods of relative prosperity. Amman was largely abandoned during the Ottoman period from the 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
