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The first thing that strikes one about the film
Paradise Now, co-written by director Hany Abu-Assad and Dutch producer Bero Beyer, is that the voice of non-violence is assigned to the cleverly conceived character of Suha, the daughter of a Palestinian patriot and martyr. In light of the generally reduced role of women in Muslim cultures, it is not insignificant that the auteur chose one to be his philosophical and political mouthpiece. Suha, played by the skilled actress Lubna Azabal, is a warm, appealing, and very attractive human rights activist who has just returned to her home in Nablus from work abroad. At the film’s opening, we watch her arrival at a checkpoint, and the unflinching hostility with which both she and the Israeli soldier in charge stare at each other during the routine baggage inspection. The scene speaks volumes for the enduring rage and bottomless mistrust on both sides of the barricades. Yet there is something else at work here: Abu-Assad makes clear