Napoleon in the Middle East
Feature - Informative Film emerges in some traditions and life properties of Arabs, and establishes Multi-Directional Cultural Dialog.
Drama
Directed by
Muhammad Ali Adeeb
Overview
This Film opens a window on the Napoleon Bonaparte Campaign towards Egypt and Syria in the year 1798, and impact affected the relationship between East & West. The film while discovers some of the personal configuration of such an outstanding figure, it emerges in some traditions and life properties. Yet the film establishes Multi-Directional Cultural Dialog.
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