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May 25, 2016
Ashes to Diamonds in Gaza:
How
The Idol
was Shot in One of the Planet’s Most War-Torn Regions
The Idol, my Palestinian fictional feature, tells the real story of the Gazan wedding singer Mohammad Assaf, who won the pretigious Arab Idol in 2013.