Egypt star faces ban for acting with Israeli

by korzac | August 28, 2007 at 10:31 pm
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The perils of going global

  Rising screen star Amr Waked in trouble for co-starring with anIsraeli actor in a BBC production about Saddam Hussein.

..."CAIRO (AFP) - A rising Egyptian film star who plays the son-in-lawof Saddam Hussein in a BBC drama faces a possible ban on performing in Egypt for acting with an Israeli in the film.... Actor Amr Waked, now
shooting in Tunisia,ran into trouble when his union learned that Israeli actor Yigal Naor is playing the role of the ousted and executed dictator in the drama about his life".. see here

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Brian A Kennedy
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at 05:23 on August 29th, 2007

How ridiculous! Thanks for posting this, korzac.

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Thanks for the "good stuff" flag.


In Hebrew we say " I understand them but I don't understand them"! 

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