This is the 20 minutes shortened version of the documentary.
Original version is: „The Arab world through European Eyes - Two Europeans on tour around the Mediterranean“(45 minutes, English with Arab subtitles)

The two young filmmakers Peter Baranowski and Olaf Deussen dived for four months into the Arab-Mediterranean world and its cultures. They condensed their experiences in this 45 minutes documentary.

For this purpose they traveled through the Arab Mediterranean countries in an adapted minibus. The tour took them from Germany, through Europe into the Middle East and from there through North Africa back to Europe. The road trip builds the thread of the documentary.

Interview-sequences, observations and road trip elements are intertwined. The focus lies on Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco. Similarities and differences between the European and the Arab world are stressed in the interviews and the observations. The road trip elements focus on every day life scenes and problems of the journey.

The documentary “The Arab world seen through European eyes” proposes a view of the Arab World far beyond terrorism and fundamentalism and invites to discover the Arab World through ones own eyes.

Contact: Olaf Deussen: olaf.deussen@euroarab-forum.eu