"Kathy Wazana's "They Were Promised the Sea" is an intimate journey shot in Morocco, Israel-Palestine, and New York. Her research into her family origins in Morocco unleashed a complex web of questions about dual identity, political opportunism, and the challenges faced by those torn between Homeland and Promised Land. Wazana gives us unique access to a cast of characters that includes a Jewish advisor to the King of Morocco, the director of the only Jewish museum in the Arab world, a Muslim-Moroccan musician/jeweller who longs for the return of his Jewish friends from Israel, and a Moroccan-Israeli living in exile in New York, whose poetry is dedicated to Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish."

In English. English subtitles when dialogue in Arabic or French.

Jewish-Arab relations > History.

Jews > Morocco > History.

Jews > Canada > Identity.

Jews > Migration > Morocco > History > 20th century.

Israel > Politics and government > 20th century.

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