A Sinner in Mecca
(2015)

Nonfiction

eVideo

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Kino Lorber, 2015
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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 79 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT16996601, 16996601
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Parvez Sharma

Hamad Almutaani, Shady Eldanf, Maram Alzghoul

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he undertook the Hajj, a pilgrimage considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam's crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles. He brings back the story of the religion like it has never been told before, having endured the biggest jihad there is: the struggle with the self

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