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The first day you meet,              you are friends,
the next day you meet,
         you are brothers.  
               Afghan proverb

Nacer Khemir
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An Interview with Nacer Khemir

This interview with the director was conducted by Nawara Omarbacha and was provided by Typecast Releasing. it appeared on the Spirituality & Practice website. READ MORE

Tunisian film director Nacer Khemir's cinematic achievements include the award-winning features Les Baliseurs du Desert (The Searchers of the Desert), awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival des Trois Continents in 1984, and Le Collier Perdu de la Colombe (The Dove's Lost Necklace), which won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno in 1991.

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His latest film, Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul has been a hit on the festival circuit and garnered awards at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, Iran, and the Muscat Film Festival in Muscat, Oman.

current projects

Looking for Muhyiddine

  • Introduction to a dramatized documentary in progress
  • “I knew that my words would reach both horizons; the East and the West”. This is what Ibn Arabi said after a vision that stroke him at an early age. History has proven right.
  • In the twenty-first century, eight centuries after Ibn Arabi’s death, one can find in different parts of the world, a number of Societies friends of Ibn Arabi, in London, Oxford, Berkeley, New-York or Madrid among others, but strangely enough, very few of these Societies exist in the Muslim world.

    • But who is Ibn Arabi?
  • One of the most famous mystic figures of the Muslim world, Muhyiddine Abou Bakr Mohammad Ibn Ali Ibn Arabi Al Hatimi, better known as Ibn Arabi, was born on August 7th 1165 in Andalusia, in the city of Murcia. He died in the Syrian capital, Damascus on November 8th 1240. Also known as “Shaykh Al Akbar” (the Greatest Master), it is known that his immeasurable work has influenced Western figures as Dante and Saint Jean de la Croix. Like Averroes, who is better known worldwide than Ibn Arabi, his disciples are majorly in the Western world and rarely from the Oriental world.
  • Looking for additional funding

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