Loading ...‘Theeb’ director Naji Abu Nowar hopes film will change Western views of Middle East
While film director Naji Abu Nowar wants to tell stories about the culture of his Middle Eastern ancestors, the British-born director’s authorial influences come from cultures both west and east of his family’s native Jordan, where he was partially educated as a young man. Among his particular influences were the John Ford Westerns, many of them filmed on location in Utah’s singular Monument Valley.
“I grew up with the Bedouin culture, which is basically the equivalent of knight’s tales in Britain — all about chivalry and derring-do,” Mr. Nowar recently told The Washington Times. “So I thought as an initial premise, wouldn’t it be interesting to take the concept of the Western genre and tell a Bedouin story.”
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