Jordan's emerging film industry

A makeshift film screen blows in the desert wind in Jordan’s Wadi Rum, long a cinematic setting for international films (notably Lawrence of Arabia), where this spring Jordanian filmmakers and local Bedouin actors gathered to view one of Jordan’s newest films, director Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb—another film influenced by pioneer filmmaker and cinema-workshop developer Nadine Toukan, below right.