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Transcending the question of origins
Emna Mrabet
North African origin. The new figure of the Maghrebi youth would now replace that of the immigrant worker, which dominated the films of the 1970s such as Ali Ghanem’s film Mektoub? (1970) and Naceur Ktari’s Les Ambassadeurs (1975). The famous filmmaker Costa-Gavras and his wife helped produce Medi Charef’s work Le Thé au harem d’Archimède, which was released in 1985. Known in English as Tea in the harem of Archimedes, this was one of the first films ever made by a young man with North African immigrant roots to reach a wide audience. It paved the way for others, whose