Zanj Revolution

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...

Cast

Fethi Gares

Fethi Gares

Diana Sabri

Ahmed Hafez

Wassim Mohamed Ajawi

John W. Peake

Sean Gullette