Movielogr

movie poster

View on: IMDb | TMDb

Zanj Revolution (2015)

Directed by Tariq Teguia

Overview

Ibn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in Southern Algeria, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in 8th-9th century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab World…

Length 137 minutes

Actors

Fethi Gares | Diana Sabri | Ahmed Hafez | Wassim Mohamed Ajawi | John W. Peake | Sean Gullette