The war sent the Najjar family to Alief, a suburb in Houston, Texas to live, undocumented, as they wait for their aslyum request to be heard – for 22 years and counting. In one way or another, Netflix’s new series, Mo, painstakingly mirrors the stories of millions of asylum seekers struggling to make a home in the diaspora.ĭirected by Solvan “Slick” Naim, the Netflix show, which premiered on 24 August, follows Mo Najjar, played by Mohamed Amer, a Palestinian-American Muslim born in Kuwait, whose family fled to the U.S during the plight of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. But as a floating immigrant, his family’s journey is painfully impeded by state bureacracy. In the land of hopes and dreams – the United States – Mo, an asylum seeker, has only one desire: to be granted the U.S citizenship and care for his family. ![]() I don’t have citizenship there I don’t have citizenship here. Mohamed Amer ‘Mo’ | Photo Credit: Netflix ![]() Netflix’s ‘Mo’: On Palestinian Representation and Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality
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