Escaping Tel Aviv

Welad El-Am
Welad El-Am
Directed by	Sherif Arafa
Written by
Produced by	al-Nasr - Oscar - al-Masah
Starring	Karim Abdel Aziz; Mona Zaki; Sherif Mounir; Salim Kallas; ; Kinda Alloush
Music by	Omar Khairat
Release date	November 13, 2009;
Country	Egypt
Languages	Arabic, Hebrew

Welad El-Am (Arabic: ولاد العم; English: The Cousins), known professionally as Escaping Tel Aviv, is a 2009 Egyptian film directed by Sherif Arafa and starring Karim Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir and Mona Zaki.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot[]

Salwa (played by Mona Zaki) is an Egyptian woman who discovers that her husband (played by Sherif Mounir) is a Mossad agent and abducts her with her two young children to Israel.^[1] Mostafa (Karim Abdel Aziz), an intelligent officer is assigned to rescue Salwa and her children and bring them back to Egypt.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "'Welad El-Am': A simplistic confrontation with a reinvented enemy". Daily News Egypt. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
^ (18 March 2010). Joden in de schurkenrol in drakerig actiethriller, Trouw (in Dutch), Retrieved December 15, 2010 (critical review saying the movie glorifies Arabs and paints Israeli Jews as villains, just as bad as Hollywood films painting Arabs as villains)
^ (16 March 2010). Deze film doorbreekt taboe in Arabische wereld, NU.nl (in Dutch), Retrieved December 15, 2010 (reporting that film caused much controversy in Arab media)

External links[]

Escaping Tel Aviv at IMDb

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[dne1-1] "'Welad El-Am': A simplistic confrontation with a reinvented enemy". Daily News Egypt. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.

[review2-2] (18 March 2010). Joden in de schurkenrol in drakerig actiethriller, Trouw (in Dutch), Retrieved December 15, 2010 (critical review saying the movie glorifies Arabs and paints Israeli Jews as villains, just as bad as Hollywood films painting Arabs as villains)

[2nddutchreview-3] (16 March 2010). Deze film doorbreekt taboe in Arabische wereld, NU.nl (in Dutch), Retrieved December 15, 2010 (reporting that film caused much controversy in Arab media)

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