{"id":12134,"date":"2011-11-05T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=12134"},"modified":"2011-11-05T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:50:35","slug":"news-analysis-are-you-lookin-at-me-ben-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/news-analysis-are-you-lookin-at-me-ben-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"News Analysis: &#8216;Are You Lookin&#8217; at Me, Ben Ali?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2010+Doha+Tribeca+Film+Festival+Day+5+zJpqQO6dFqWl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12135\" title=\"2010+Doha+Tribeca+Film+Festival+Day+5+zJpqQO6dFqWl\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2010+Doha+Tribeca+Film+Festival+Day+5+zJpqQO6dFqWl-e1320496313622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><strong>What&#8217;s the story?<\/strong> Robert de Niro is looking forward to seeing a raft of movies about the Arab Spring in the next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you know?<\/strong> He said so at the close of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival which took place last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr &#8216;Raging Bull&#8217; has been quite a supporter of this particular festival.<\/strong>\u00a0 He has indeed but he&#8217;s not the only Hollywood A-lister to enjoy a slightly more humid week in the Gulf than expected.\u00a0 Antonio Banderas, Michelle Yeoh, Luc Besson and Omar Sharif came along too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omar Sharif? Wouldn&#8217;t he be a shoo in to play Hosni Mubarak in any upcoming movie<\/strong>.\u00a0 It may require some smart work by the make up people but we couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have any movies yet been made about the tumultuous events of the last year?<\/strong>\u00a0 One person who has already got to tell his story about the revolution and has shown it at the festival is Tunisian film-maker Elyes Baccar. He toured around the country immediately after the fall of Ben Ali to chronicle the aftermath of the dictator&#8217;s demise and how people reacted to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But it&#8217;ll be a while before we see the &#8216;defining&#8217; movies of recent events<\/strong>?\u00a0 According to Amanda Palmer, executive director of the Doha Film Institute (DFI) if you take Iraq as an example it&#8217;ll be about four years before we see the best work on the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS ANALYSIS: Legendary American film star, supporter of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Robert de Niro, is sure events in the Arab world will inspire very interesting film-making. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,173,152,482,5,893],"tags":[324,2047,18321,698,9575,18307,9571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}