Ajami

Ajami

Ajami

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2009•120 min•CrimeDrama

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Fouad Habash

Nasri

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Nisrine Rihan

Ilham

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Elias Saba

Shata

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Youssef Sahwani

Abu-Lias

A

Abu George Shibli

Sido

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Ibrahim Frege

Malek

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Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

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