Uday or Odai is a masculine name in Arabic as well as several Indian languages. In many Indian languages it means 'dawn' or 'rise'. The Arabic name (عدي) means 'runner' or 'rising'.
The Iraqi Intelligence Service, full name in Arabic language |Arabic]: جهاز المخابرات العامة العراقية "Jihaz almukhabarat aleamat aleiraqiat" literally:Iraqi General Intelligence Service - also known as the مخابرات Mukhabarat, General Directorate of Intelligence, or Party Intelligence, was an 8,000-man agency and the main state intelligence organization in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The IIS was primarily concerned with international intelligence collection and analysis but also performed many activities inside Iraq in conjunction with the Directorate of General Security as a secret police organization.
Being Osama is a 2004 documentary about how the lives of men named "Osama" changed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Hiam Abbass, also Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director.
Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi is an Iraqi politician, tribal leader and economist, as a Minister of State in the Iraqi Interim Government, June 2004–January 2005
Najeen is a loose collective of Iraqi actors, artists and filmmakers that formed in 1991 in the wake of the Persian Gulf War. Before the Iraq War began in 2003, the group produced their projects mostly underground to avoid coming under the eye of the Baath Party's Ministry of Culture, whose approval was necessary for public works of art. After the American invasion of Iraq and the fall of the Baath Party, Najeen produced a short series of highly visible art projects.
The cinema of Iraq went through a downturn under Saddam Hussein's regime. The development of film and film-going in Iraq reflects the drastic historical shifts that Iraq has experienced in the 20th century. The Iraq War which began in 2003 had an influence on many films being produced.
Haj Mulla Basim Ismail Muhammad-Ali al-Karbalaei, commonly known as Basim Karbalaei or Mulla Basim is an Iraqi Shi'ite eulogy reciter.
Docufiction is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre which attempts to capture reality such as it is and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to strengthen the representation of reality using some kind of artistic expression.
Abbas Fadhel is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq.
Dawn of the World is a feature film written and directed by the Iraqi-French film director Abbas Fahdel.
Oday Rasheed is an Arab-American film director, screenwriter and producer born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Rasheed immigrated to New York City in 2012. He has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2022.
Arabs in Denmark are Danish permanent residents originating from Arab countries. The largest subpopulations found hail from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Morocco followed by smaller groups from other of the 21 Arab League countries.
When Monaliza Smiled is a 2012 Jordanian romantic comedy film directed by Fadi Haddad, produced by Nadia Eliwat and Nadine Toukan and starring Tahani Salim and Shady Khalaf with Haifa Al Agha, Nadera Omran, Fouad Al Shomali, Haidar Kfouf, and Suha Najjar. Its plot is set in Amman, Jordan and the film is now is available online and on digital platforms. The film talks about how a Jordanian young lady named Monaliza, who sees no reason to smile, gets a job as an office girl and falls in love with cheerful Hamdi who is an Egyptian immigrant and is the “tea guy” of the office. Hamdi, who is the only person able to make Monaliza smile, shows Monaliza the world in an amazingly new and different perspective.
2:30 min is an Iraqi experimental film by Iraqi film director Hayder Faris. The film won "Best Experimental Film" award at Canada Independent Film Festival, which was held on 26 January 2018 in Montreal, Canada.
