Damascus with Love

Damascus with Love Arabic dimashq maa hubbi , is a 2010 Drama film by Syrian director Mohamad Abdul Aziz. Damascus with Love was first screened in the Dubai International Film Festival. The movie holds some controversy in the fact that it is about a minor sect of Syrians, the Syrian Christians and Syrian Jews. Damascus with Love is a story about the life of a young Jewish girl whose father reveals some past secrets to, and so decides to look for the truth in magical Damascus. This movie was translated and aired in the UK on Wednesday October 19, 2010.

The journey begins when a Jewish old handicapped man Khalid Taja confesses to his daughter a secret at the airport while they wait for their departure to Italy. The secret being of her old love still alive after she thought he has been dead for years. Determined to return to Damascus and find her love, Hala Marah Jaber seems to discover the beauty, history, architecture, and magic that is hidden between the small neighborhoods of her beloved city. In the midst of her search for the old love Nabil Hanna Bshara Milad Yousif who has participated in the Lebanese civil war, Hala Mizrahi Marah Jaber is actually searching for an identity as well as a home land. Her family has immigrated to Rome in escape from the Zionist action in Palestine, and left behind the only city she has ever known, Damascus. Her father after reaching Rome, is in great misery and isolation because he feels he has been forced out and pulled out from his roots and his city. Ironically, while still on the way from Romes airport to see his family, the Jewish Father Khalid Taja undergoes a stroke and dies just as he smelled a jar of soil he had packed from his homeland, and so his family decides to return his body for burial at the place he loved the most, Damascus. The movie ends with Hala Marah Jaber deciding on leaving to Italy again after a long vain search for Nabil Milad Yousef, when she receives a letter from him to meet her at the same place that has witnessed all their wonderful past memories. That place being, in the beautiful old city of Damascus.In an interview on Al Jazeera Documentary with the director of Damascus with Love, Mohamad Abdul Aziz, he talks about the controversy of his film. He says that his film discusses the problems of minorities in the Arab community, and that the Jewish, Kurdish and many other Arab minorities that cannot be separated from the Arab culture because they are an integral part of the regions culture and geography. He continues to explain how since the

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