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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
ON THE ROAD IN AMERICA - Episode 11: Dubai and Beirut – Sanad shows the Americans around Dubai, where modernity co-exists with tradition and a tourist itinerary includes skiing and dune buggy excursions. On the campus of the American University in Dubai, Sanad and his friends discuss his travels in the U.S. and the larger topic of American hegemony. The Middle East tour concludes in Beirut with visits to Lara and Mohamed. We meet Lara’s mother and her husband, an interior decorator who is designing their new home. Mohamed takes the Americans inside the medical clinic he helped establish in one of the city’s oldest refugee camps. A hot-air balloon trip offers a birds-eye view of the damage wreaked by the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Directed by Jerome Gary.