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     • Dancing Arabs is the 2002 debut novel of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua. The work is considered semi-autobiographical, as it draws much on Kashua's real experiences growing up as a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
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   Is Dancing Arabs based on a true story?

   • Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Sayed Kashua (who also wrote the script), Dancing Arabs, known also as “A Borrowed Identity,” was the opening film of the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2014 and was scheduled to be released immediately, but was held back until now because of the war in Gaza.

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   Is Dancing Arabs a political film?

   • Dancing Arabs is not a political film and the Arab-Israeli conflict remains marginal, only occasionally referred to when Eyad’s family, mother (Laëtitia Eïdo, “Article 23”) and grandmother’s (Marlene Bajali, “The Syrian Bride”) instinctively pull for Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War until they realize what he is up against.

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   Who wrote Dancing Arabs?

   • Dancing Arabs is the 2002 debut novel by Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua of Israel. He is also a screenwriter and columnist, publishing most of his work in Hebrew . The novel tells the story of Eyad, an Israeli Arab teenager from Tira who is admitted to an elite bilingual school in Jerusalem.

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   What is Dancing Arabs about?

   • The problems that arise from these conflicting allegiances are dramatized in Eran Riklis’ (“Zaytoun”) film Dancing Arabs, a title that denotes those who have to straddle two cultures and “dance at two weddings.”

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   What is Kashua's greatest accomplishment in Dancing Arabs?

   • With refreshing candor and self-deprecating wit, Kashua brings us a protagonist whose greatest accomplishment is his ability to disappear. In a land where personal and national identities are synonymous, Dancing Arabs brilliantly maps one man’s struggle to disentangle the two, only to tragically and inevitably forfeit both.

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   Dancing Arabs is the 2002 debut novel of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua. The work is considered semi-autobiographical, as it draws much on Kashua's real experiences growing up as a Palestinian citizen of Israel. He is also a screenwriter and columnist, publishing most of his work in Hebrew.

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   Jan 1, 2002 · The vision in “Dancing Arabs” of this growing conflict is that of a young Arab who was educated among Jews. Not only that, but he actually tried to assimilate into Israeli society and culture. Which leads us to the general issue: the impossibility to really cross deep cultural divides.

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5. www.torch.ox.ac.uk › article › dignity-in-dark-timesDignity in Dark Times: Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua

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   Feb 22, 2016 · The book Dancing Arabs centres on a young boy from a poor Arab village, his haphazard receipt of a scholarship to a Jewish boarding school, and the dislocation and alienation that ensues when he finds himself faced with the impossible: the imperative to straddle two famously incompatible worlds.

6. www.indiewire.com › criticism › cultureTelluride Review: Ophir Award Nominee ‘Dancing Arabs’

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   Sep 2, 2014 · Its loosely-based-on-a-true-story narrative concerns Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom) being sent off by his proud Arab parents to attend Jerusalem’s finest school; that his ex-activist dad...

7. variety.com › 2014 › filmQ and A with Israel’s Eran Riklis, Director Of “Dancing Arabs”

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   Arab-Israeli issues are at the core of most works by Israeli director Eran Riklis (“The Syrian Bride,” “Lemon Tree,” “Zaytoun”) whose new film “Dancing Arabs” is about a Palestinian/Israeli...

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   Dancing Arabs is not a political film and the Arab-Israeli conflict remains marginal, only occasionally referred to when Eyad’s family, mother (Laëtitia Eïdo, “Article 23”) and grandmother’s (Marlene Bajali, “The Syrian Bride”) instinctively pull for Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War until they realize what he is up against. The ...

9. www.thedeborahharrisagency.com › fiction › dancing-arabsDANCING ARABS - thedeborahharrisagency.com

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   Sayed Kashua provides Israeli literature with one of its most affecting characters: a hero who is equally Palestinian and Israeli; entirely Hebrew and entirely Arab; raised in an Arab village and educated in a Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem, a city both liberated and occupied.