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Jordan has played a crucial role in the peace process, often serving as a bridge between Israel and the Arab powers in the region...
...bitterly to the deadlock that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher at the White House: "He has a sense of his own mortality...
Take Ahmed. Ahmed was THE fishman at Supersol, the largest grocery store in West Jerusalem, where I did my shopping almost daily this summer. Despite the fact that Ahmed, an Arab-Israeli resident of the Old City of Jerusalem has never seen the ocean, he loves fish. Every day after we said our hellos, regardless of whether I was even purchasing dairy products, Ahmed insisted on describing the catch of the day, in detail, and the exact way to cook salmon or tuna to perfection...
...playing with kids half my age was a refreshing break from angst-ridden twenty-somethings. Outside the Old City in Jerusalem, I found a group of ten year-old Arab boys, who always played soccer in the late afternoon. I became a regular member of their pick up games, trying to ignore the stares of tourists and passers...
...First of all I did a lot of research, and I also got a lot of Arab advisors to help me. We had a mullah serve as an advisor during the whole project. We had a lot of people advising that were in Iraq at the time of the Gulf War, refugees that came to America, and most of the scenes in the movie of cruelty and murder, even some of the conversations, did actually come from real life. Also, I got a lot of inspiration from news accounts of the conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book...