The cheap Arabist film: "The Visitor" A pen-pal of mine was recently "forced" to watch that film ('The Visitor' - http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/), by taking a flight in Latin-America as this was the "featured" film on board. It was probably chosen because of its 1) Embedded "immigration" issue, 2) criticizing-America, popular with post Obama election ever more. This is what she had to say about it: A. It is a total reaffirmation of "we Arabs are always innocent victims". B. 'Mouna' (mother of "Tarek") is a "bad" actress, she tries so hard to pose as "gracious", yet she never projects it,...