Ibrahim (Arabic: إبراهيم ʾIbrāhīm) may refer to:
from the makers of Kassablanka
Plot
Aziz and Rana, two Qatar Foundation students of different social standing, have a secret love. When they decide they want to take their commitment to another level and get married, their families object to the proposed union. Now, Aziz must decide on his next step.
Plot
This film takes place during one night in the quiet neighborhood of Heliopolis in Cairo. The films jumps between the stories of six people. While a soldier stands on guard and a hotel receptionists disappears in her imaginary life in Paris, a couple is hunting for an apartment, Ibrahim is researching minorities, and Hany is preparing to migrate to Canada. None of them will achieve what they intended to achieve today. The day will be repeated almost identically tomorrow.
Keywords: independent-film, marriage, minorities, police, religion
Once upon a place... Heliopolis again and again..
[from trailer]::Nagla: [Nagla] It is strange how much we change, though nothing really changes.
Plot
Tarek Al-Wakeel works as a sales representative at a telecommunications company, he is asked by a rich businessman named Fady to search for a young woman named Sarah. When Tarek accidently eavesdrops on Sarah's phone conversation, he recognizes her voice from a local radio program that he frequently listens to. He decides to meet her in person, but he lies to her to win her affection which he later regrets.
Keywords: apartment, boss, boyfriend, businessman, cassette, client's-data, computer, confession, cousin-cousin-relationship, dog
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On the surface, what could be simpler? A man and his son, who's about 11 or 12, drive home, stopping along the way so dad can check the water pipes on their plot of farm land. The boy has to pee, he has some questions about a recent family matter, and he wants to listen to a pop music tape. But this is Israel, Mohammad and his son Ibrahim are Palestinians, driving from the border of the West Bank to their home in Nazareth. Their car has Israeli plates, there are temporary checkpoints along the way, Ibrahim has something in his backpack that could get them in serious trouble. Mohammad speaks Hebrew, Ibrahim does not. Can they make it home?
Keywords: arabic, backpack, blood, chase, checkpoint, danger, death-of-relative, death-of-uncle, family-secret, farmland
Crowd: Down with military Dictatorship!
Ibrahim - Ein stolzer Türke
Macht Rabazz am Khebabstand
Weil Salat er und gegürke
Doch kein Fleisch im Fladen fand
Forsch entleert er seinen Raki
Grimmig bebt sein schwarzer Bart
Eilt zum Griechen - Ißt Souvlaki!
Den Khebabwirt trifft dieses hart.
Auf dem Heimweg - Kurz nach Ecke
Ibrahim sein Ende fand
Wer wohl brachte ihn zur Strecke
Meuchelnd mittels Mörderhand?
Warum uns Ibrahim verließ?
Ibrahim avec ses frères
Elevé dans la misère
Dans les bombes et dans la guerre
Ibrahim...
Qui se cache derrière ses frères?
A qui profite cet enfer?
Ibrahim bouc-émissaire
Ibrahim...
Parmi le fracas des mines
Palestine, quel est ton crime?
Israël t'assassine
Palestine...
De tous côtés pourchassés
Plus de terre où habiter
Palestine ensanglantée
Palestine...
Pour les enfants du Liban
Pour que cessent les flots de sang
Pour la paix au Moyen-Orient...
"Ibrahim"
-Eric Bogle
(Album: The Colour of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia?
Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder?
As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour
But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
So Ibrahim, can you tell me, why did you come here?
What dream were you chasing and what did you hope to find here?
Did you flee from your own native land because your life was in danger?
Or were the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been meaning to tell you
Being hungry and poor bestows no special status upon you
We won't send you back, if you can prove they'd imprison or kill you
But if you're just going back home to starve, I'm afraid we can't help you
You see Ibrahim, you've become a bit of a problem
This world's full of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression
So to take in queue-jumpers like you, well it's out of the question
It would give the world's hungry and poor the wrong impression
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid
You had Buckley's chance* right from the moment you landed
Already to many a threat and a danger you were branded
And all because you follow the prophet Mohammed
You didn't count Ibrahim, on political opportunism
Our leaders knew that to many Australians, the very word "Muslim"
Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and terrorism
And that's why you and your family are locked up in prison.
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
So Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia?
Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder?
As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour
But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
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NOTE:
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism meaning "no chance whatsoever".