Egyptian filmmakers blasted a colleague who wants to normalize ties with Israel. The filmmakers urged the Cairo International Film Festival to drop a new work by director Khaled Al-Hagar because of “A Barrier That Divides Us,” a love story between an Egyptian and an Israeli, that Al-Hagar made in 1993, Agence France-Presse reported.
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