Amreeka (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

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Nisreen Faour as Muna and Melkar Muallem as Fadi in "Amreeka," directed by Cherien Dabis.
Settlers From Afar, in Land of Lincoln
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: September 4, 2009

Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” (the Arabic word for America) stands alongside “The Visitor" and “Maria Full of Grace” as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States. While the arrivals in the other two movies were not legal immigrants, the indomitably good-natured protagonist of “Amreeka,” Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), is a divorced non-Muslim Palestinian woman with a green card. More