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Saleh is a thirty-some years old man who's trying to flee conscription under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. He carries along with him his objective of going back home to his pregnant wife and his daughter. Mulberry Swing is a story of mystery and tragedy mixed together with passion and suffering that Saleh experiences in this adventure.
Keywords: mulberry, ottoman-empire, tragedy
Evil lurks within.
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Karima is a hard-working woman from a working class neighborhood, she is married to Abbas and they have three children. When Abbas dies after being hit by a taxi cab, Karima discovers that her late husband had left her a fortune and a second wife named Mervat who is pregnant with twins. Karima then imposes an austerity plan on her family in order to keep the money, her children are not satisfied with her stinginess such as putting a lock on the refrigerator and allowing them to watch television for one hour.
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Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
Keywords: africa, athletic-scout, basketball, basketball-movie, college-basketball, sports-team, tall-man
Saleh: You came halfway around the world to watch me play this basketball?::Jimmy Dolan: That's what I said.::Saleh: (pointing to his head) Are you healthy up here?::Jimmy Dolan: Never said that.
Sister Susan: I only hope you're as good a coach as you are a bullshit artist!::Jimmy Dolan: [shocked] You're allowed to say bullshit?::Sister Susan: Only if I really mean it.::Father O'Hara: [in a low voice to Jimmy] Every day I thank the lord she's on our side.
[Sister Susan kisses Jimmy after his team wins]::Jimmy Dolan: Sister! You're allowed to kiss?::Sister Susan: [smiling] Only if I really mean it!
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In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Keywords: africa, based-on-novel, british-colonialism, buying-a-wife, character-name-in-title, corruption, emir, execution, hit-in-the-face, independent-film
Africa 1923: A clash of cultures between British imperalists and a black man too smart for his own good.
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In a small Lebanese village, a young woman forced into a loveless marriage seeks the help of belly dancing legend Badiaa Masabny, and informs her that she has dreams of becoming a rich dancer like her and refuses to marry a man she does not love. Badiaa persuades the girl to accept marriage and encourages her not to pursue a dancing career after her personal struggles with fame, money and love.
Keywords: abuse, adopted-daughter, alcohol, belly-dancer, betrayal, church, dancing, drunk, entertainment, fame
Saleh or Șāliḥ (Arabic: صالح; meaning Pious) was an Arabic prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in the Qur'an, who prophesied to the tribe of Thamud. He is mentioned nine times throughout the Qur'an and his people are frequently referenced as a wicked community who, because of their sins, were ultimately destroyed. Saleh is sometimes equated with the Shelah of the Hebrew Bible, however there is almost nothing in common between the Qur'anic narrative of Saleh and the Biblical narrative of Shelah. The preaching and prophecy of Saleh is linked to the famous Islamic story of the She-Camel, which was the gift given by God to the people of Thamud when they desired a miracle to confirm the truth of the message Saleh was preaching. Chronologically, scholars believe Saleh's prophesying to have been post-Antediluvian[clarification needed] but pre-Abrahamic.
Thamud people are believed to have been the successors to the ancient tribe of ʿĀd. Their ancestral descendant may have been Eber, the great-grandson of Noah and their location is likely to have been in the Northwest corner of Arabia, between Madinah and Syria. In later Islamic history, when Muhammad led his expedition to Tabuk against the Romans, on a reported Roman invasion from Syria, the prophet - and his companions - came across the remains of Thamud. With the advance of material civilization, the people of Thamud became materialistic and arrogant as well as godless. Thus, God sent the prophet and seer Saleh, to warn them about the impending doom they would face if they did not mend their sinful ways.
Amrullah Saleh (Persian: امرالله صالح; born 1971) is an Afghan politician who last served as head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security. In 1997, at the age of 24, he was appointed by anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud to lead the United Front's (Northern Alliance) liaison office inside the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe handling contacts to international non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and intelligence agencies. After the fall of the Taliban regime, Saleh was appointed by President Hamid Karzai in early 2004 to lead the National Directorate of Security. Due to political differences with Karzai, Saleh resigned his position in 2010. He is currently leading one of the strongest Afghan pro-democracy and anti-Taliban movements, the Basej-i Milli (National Movement) or Afghanistan Green Trend, with about 10,000 of his supporters rallying against the Taliban in Kabul in 2011.
Amrullah Saleh was born in the Panjshir Province of Afghanistan in 1971.
In the late 1990s, in his early 20s, Saleh worked for the anti-Taliban resistance, the United Front (Northern Alliance), under Ahmad Shah Massoud. In 1997, Saleh was appointed to lead Massoud's international liaison office in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he served as a coordinator for non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and as a liaision partner for foreign intelligence agencies.