Review: THEEB
 

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There?s no clearer sign of film?s capacity for bridging cultural divides than the steady stream of Arabic language movies that have found receptive audiences in the West over the last several years. The latest work to fit that description is THEEB, the first feature directed by British-born Jordanian filmmaker Naji Abu Nowar and a film that has been widely and reasonably described as the first Arabic Western.?