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Summary: Abu Amar, a Jordanian ex-Mujahid and father of eight children, used to run a supermarket that he named 'Al Jihad'. Now he scrapes together a living for his family by collecting cardboard on the streets of Zarqa, Jordan's second largest city. Zarqa, a hotbed of political Islamists, is also the childhood home of the film’s director and the birthplace of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late and infamous al-Qaeda leader in Iraq. The film joins Abu Ammar on his daily work routine, in intimate family settings at home, at prayer, and after his arrest and four-month imprisonment on suspicion of involvement in the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman. His periodic, wide-ranging conversations with friends and neighbors include the inadvisability for Muslims of working or living in "infidel" countries, the 9/11 attacks in America, the rise of extremist violence, and the role of Muslim theologians. This is a revealing portrait of a desperate man, whose religious beliefs are put to the test by humiliating poverty.

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1525	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1525 (HU_OSA_00003158.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format