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Next year, the gritty tale about mafia-style murders will become the first Arabic language film to represent Israel at the Oscars.
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Impoverished Israeli Arabs shooting one another in the shadow of the gleaming towers of Tel Aviv is far from Israel's preferred international image.
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dark underside to the ideal of coexistence sometimes touted in mixed Jewish-Arab areas like Jaffa.
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"It's nothing but shooting and drugs, shooting and drugs - it's true, but it will ruin our reputation," says one youth.
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Until the war which led to Israel being founded broke out in 1948, Jaffa was the considered the cultural capital of what was then British Mandate Palestine.
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A young man in Ajami "doesn't know if he's Palestinian or Israeli, he's confused, he doesn't know what he is, what he wants to do," says Ms Rihan.
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"I'm shocked that Jews like the film more than Arabs, even though it shows that we are like this because of them!", she adds.
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The actors were not given the script, just thrown into scenarios and told to react.
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Over seven years, Mr Shani learnt Arabic and says he spent more time in Ajami with Mr Copti than with his own wife, immersing himself in "a totally different world".
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shared by Jim Franklin on 19 Apr 09 - Cached

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President Obama vowed to shut down the facilities shortly after taking office.
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During his first week as president, Mr Obama ordered the closure of the black sites
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Mr Panetta also stressed that the CIA no longer employed controversial "harsh interrogation techniques", like "waterboarding", or simulated drowning, which have been widely condemned.
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CIA was no longer allowing outside "contractors" to carry out interrogations.
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But the CIA retains the power to detain suspects "on a short-term transitory basis".
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The administration of Barack Obama, the US president, has dropped the term "enemy combatant" as its basis for holding terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay
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the new detention policy does not rely on the president's powers as military commander in chief to hold terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.
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Instead, the justice department said: "It draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress. "It provides that individuals who supported al-Qaeda or the Taliban are detainable only if the support was substantial.
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shared by Jim Franklin on 12 Mar 09 - Cached

“The Quran is perfect just the way it is, that’s why it is only written in Islamic.”
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Jim Franklin

I'm a Middle East Studies major at Dickinson currently in my sophomore year.