Bringing 'Gandhi' to an Arab Audience

By Robert Siegel

Published February 24, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

Filmmaker Hanna Elias also wrote and directed <i>The Olive Harvest</i>, a West Bank love story that he made with a Palestinian cast and an Israeli crew. — Filmmaker Hanna Elias also wrote and directed *The Olive Harvest*, a West Bank love story that he made with a Palestinian cast and an Israeli crew.

Robert Siegel meets with Palestinian filmmaker Hanna Elias. He is dubbing the movie Gandhi into Arabic -- with the hope of bringing the Indian leader's message of non-violence to a different part of the world. It's a project that is more radical than it might at first seem.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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