Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File, 2010
Wael Shawky
Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File, 2010
Digital video, colour
31 minutes
Arabic with English subtitles
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Synopsis
Inspired by Amin Maalouf’s The Crusades Through Arab Eyes written in 1986, Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File offers a view on the history of the Crusades, retracing events that unfolded over a period of four years (1096-1099) and played a key role in subsequent historical developments, shaking to the core the Arab world and its relations with the West.
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