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Omar Mukhtar This film directed by the little known Syrian-American Moustapha Akkad depicts a freedom fighter who struggled against Moussolini’s brutal colonial forces between the two worlds wars in Libya in 1929 to 1931. The funding came from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, so Akkad was able to hire Anthony Quinn to portray the Arab Muslim leader …
In a Muslim country where women are not allowed to drive or move freely about a young girl sets her heart on buying a bicycle, forbidden to her sex. The obstacles which she has to overcome are formidable, but as a symbol of freedom, she will go to great lengths to obtain her dream despite the opposition of her mother and teachers who go along with their status as possessions of men.