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Verzio FF Abu Amar, a Jordanian ex-Mujahid and father of eight children, used to run a supermarket that he named 'Al Jihad'. Now he scrapes together a living for his family by collecting cardboard on the streets of Zarqa, Jordan's second largest city. Zarqa, a hotbed of political Isla...

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Other Authors: Al Massad, Mahmoud
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Arabic
Published: Netherlands 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:1074714b-279b-4ff4-9e58-b87fb977c5be
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Summary:Verzio FF Abu Amar, a Jordanian ex-Mujahid and father of eight children, used to run a supermarket that he named 'Al Jihad'. Now he scrapes together a living for his family by collecting cardboard on the streets of Zarqa, Jordan's second largest city. Zarqa, a hotbed of political Islamists, is also the childhood home of the film’s director and the birthplace of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late and infamous al-Qaeda leader in Iraq. The film joins Abu Ammar on his daily work routine, in intimate family settings at home, at prayer, and after his arrest and four-month imprisonment on suspicion of involvement in the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman. His periodic, wide-ranging conversations with friends and neighbors include the inadvisability for Muslims of working or living in "infidel" countries, the 9/11 attacks in America, the rise of extremist violence, and the role of Muslim theologians. This is a revealing portrait of a desperate man, whose religious beliefs are put to the test by humiliating poverty.
Published:2007