'Being Osama' Documentary. 2004

Being Osama is an award-winning documentary produced in 2004 by Montreal based Diversus Productions.

Producers: Ari A. Cohen and Ivan Beloff.
Film director: Mahmoud Kaabour.
Co-director: Tim Schwab.
Cinematographer: Andrei Khabad
Editor: Yurij Luhovy

Mahmood Kaboor is the founder and managing director of Veritas Films (veritasfilms.ae), based in the United Arab Emirates.
Co-Director Tim Schwab is an Associate Professor of film at Concordia University.

The documentary details the lives of six Montreal Arab men, all with the first name "Osama":
Osama (Sam) Shalabi
Ossama al-Sarraf
Ossama el-Naggar
Osama el-Demerdash
Oussama al-Jundi
Osama Dorias

The film has been recognized as a contribution to the intellectual and artistic debate about the Arab diaspora. It has appeared on many international television, documentary and news channels.

Being Osama has won a number of international awards, including:

Best Documentary at the University Film and Video Conference
Best Documentary award at the Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University
An Aurora Award (for Best Documentary) at the Canadian National Youth Film Festival
Certificate of Merit for fighting racism from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

[Musicians tune instruments]

♪ [musicians play middle eastern music]

♪ [middle eastern music plays]

(man #1) Do you know anyone
named Osama?

(Woman) Osama?

No, I don't have a personal
friends named Osama.

(man #2) Osama bin Laden?

(Ossama El-Naggar) My name
was stolen from me.

I didn't like that at all.

(Osama Shalabi) It's a very common
name as well in the Middle East,

and here, too.

[machine gun fires]

(Osama Shalabi) But it's evil.

(Oussama Al-Jundi) I like
to sue Osama bin Laden

because he use my name
in a very, very bad way.

(Osama El-Demerdash) Sometimes
I just say it's more common like,

oh no, Osama and they
continue bin Laden?

It's like, I don't find it funny.

(Osama Dorias) Other people ask me
if I was named after Osama bin Laden,

okay, but you know,
I'm kind of like 24 years old,

where was he then?

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Well, my sisters
came up with the name Osama.

Osama means 'lion',

so I've always had really
bushy, curly, big hair.

(Osama Shalabi) This woman very,
sort of meekly walked over to me,

and sort of whispers why'd
that person call you Osama?

And I said that's my name.

She said oh, that's so unfortunate,

I'm... I was like what?

She, well you know,
it's such a bad time,

you know, and the name is
synonymous with something bad.

[buildings explode]

[Glass tinkles]

♪ [middle eastern music]

(Osama Shalabi) And people
still continued to call me Osama,

you know, my parents and other friends,

but maybe when I was six or seven
people started calling me Sam.

It's not a point of pride or
anything to be called Osama.

Growing up in the Maritimes,
there's a lot of people there,

they really didn't know
what Arabs were, actually.

My brothers and I, we would
have the usual sort of problems,

you know, of being
called different things,

you know, nigger, Paki, sand nigger.

And then when I learned
oh, what the term referred to I thought

wow, they're kind of stupid,
actually, they don't even,

you know, they can't even get their,
their insults right.

My interest in the film
was primarily to compose.

[woman sings]

(Osama Shalabi) Actually, Howard,
could you turn Jessica up a bit

and Elizabeth down a little bit?

(Osama El-Demerdash) I was hired at
the beginning as a junior programmer.

I was overqualified for it.

I worked there for
more than five years.

I think things got quite worse
after September 11th, 2001,

they came and they hired somebody else

to take my responsibilities
and my position

and they decided to suspend me.

Even my union when they went to
meet with them they told them,

well, this is not Osama bin Laden.

September 11th give them the opportunity

to be able to hate somebody officially.

(crowd) We want justice.

We want justice.

We want justice.

We want justice.

(Osama El-Demerdash) My name
is Osama Demerdash.

I am 30 years old.

I was born in Egypt.

I guess I come from
bourgeois background

but I rejected the socioeconomic
privileges that were given to me,

so I left Egypt and came to Canada.

I don't like injustice in general
which is why I always try to demonstrate.

But because of my postgraduate
studies in computer science,

I can't participate all the time.

Important activities that
I have participated in were

mostly for the difference of
immigrants and refugees rights,

for Arab and Muslim discrimination.

[crowd chants, unintelligible]

(Osama El-Demerdash) I have never
been very much a part of a community,

neither here nor anywhere.

(Crowd) We want justice.

We want justice.

We want justice.

We want justice.

(Osama El-Demerdash) I've
tried to help refugees,

non-status people to gain their rights,

who are people who have lived here
for quite a few years

have helped in the development
of the economy,

have built a life here,

and now they want
to just kick them out.

(crowd) We want justice.

(Osama El-Demerdash) The people that
are running this country, they're all white,

the people that are running the province,

they're all white.

You find very, very few people
in the Parliament

that are not from European background.

And this is not very
representative of our society.

(Crowd) No martyrs, no nations,
stop the deportation.

No martyrs, no nations,
stop the deportation.

No martyrs, no nations,
stop the deportation.

No martyrs, no nations,
stop the deportation.

♪ [orchestra music plays,
woman sings opera]

(Ossama El-Naggar) My name
is Ossama El-Naggar.

I was born in Cairo.

I left Egypt 22 years ago,

I probably had pretty hard time

adapting to Canada initially
or Northern America in general,

and as much as I miss the warmth
of the Mediterranean and of Egypt,

I really did not try to hook up
with an Arabic community

or with an Egyptian community.

Just because it felt,

too depressing to be part
of a community in exile.

It's just the nostalgia
is too irritating for me.

Well, I'm very politically oriented,

I mean, [unintelligible]
interests me very much.

[El-Naggar speaks French]

(Ossama El-Naggar) I import
CDs from Europe

and I have exclusive rights
to distribute them in Canada,

so I supply all the stores.

I'm doing more and more mail order.

Very often at the end of the
conversation and the purchase

they say may I have your name,

I'd like to make sure that I talk
to you next time I phone.

And then I had to make a decision,
what do I do in that case?

Do I claim to be Sam
as actually was proposed to me

when I worked at Parlogram

and I never would
have accepted to be Sam.

Or give my family name
and that's it,

but I said no,
I mean, it's my first name

and I've always given it
and so I won't change my style.

(Ossama El-Naggar) Ossama,
O-S-S-ama, Ossama.

(Ossama El-Naggar) And usually
I just make an intro of saying

well I hope you don't be too shocked
by my first name but it's Ossama,

and so far I've never
had anyone react bad,

they usually they react very positively
or they laugh or say good for you.

♪ [music plays]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) My name
is Osama Al-Sarraf.

I'm 24 years old.

I consider myself Palestinian-Canadian.

My parents were both raised
and grew up in the Gaza Strip.

I do feel myself Canadian
and I do feel myself Arab.

♪ [music plays]

In university I was with a band,
about we formed in 1997, around there,

but during that time
I also picked up deejaying,

which was my last year of university.

Arabic culture in general in the past
hasn't really swayed towards the arts.

It's a very difficult industry,
the music industry in general,

and to break through is something

that most musicians
and bands aspire to do,

and if you, you have to keep trying

and you really have to
push yourself to the limit

and do what you can do to get into it.

♪ [guitar plays]

My father, God bless his soul,
passed away in 1997,

but my mother still remains in Egypt.

My mom has been such
a big influence for me.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) I'm sure a lot of
people in the Arab world will be like

oh my god I don't believe
your son's a musician

or I don't believe
your son has dreads,

or oh my god, like,
the whole image thing, the whole,

but it's not about that, you know,

it's about who you are
and what you want to do

and I'll always have
my Arab roots in me,

but I'm going to pursue something

that I truly believe in
and it's not my standard okay,

do this, do engineering, do doctor,

be a business man

and that's the way you're
only going to succeed,

because it's not true,

you can succeed in anything
you want to do.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Going to the States,

just like two or three months
after the whole September 11th,

there was a huge lineup

and I was the only person
that actually got taken straight

to the room for checking.

And the first thing the person at
the counter had asked me was

when was the last time
you were fingerprinted.

And I was taken aback by that;
I was like,

what's the correlation here?

(Oussama Al-Jundi) I used to travel a lot.

Now I am afraid.

In the Swiss airport they put me in
the room for eight hours without charge.

No coffee, no nothing,

they close the room
and they go away,

and after they said
okay, this is your passport,

we think you falsify the passport,

I said no, I am Canadian.

I don't have any problem at all.

But they say no, your name

and you are Arabic
and you are the Muslim,

and we are afraid.

We checked,
we don't have anything,

you can go now.

[man chants in foreign language,
children repeat]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Never in my life
I think to leave my country

if you don't have a war
and live alone.

My sister was killed
during the Israeli invasion of Beirut.

That's why we moved to Canada.

I grow up with the war,

I saw the people
how they managed to live.

It was very, very, very tough,

and thank God we are here now,

and we hope the best
for our kind of religion.

(Bilal Al-Jundi) Our memories
now has stamped with the war,

and the horror of war.

It's not, not easy to claim
that kind of stamp.

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Our father
retired three years ago

because he had a heart operation.

(Osama Dorias) My name's Osama Dorias.

Even though I'm born in Iraq,

I don't really retain much of the culture.

My upbringing has been
very strong in Islamic values.

There is a big conflict here,

being a Muslim in North America

but that is something that
the Muslims have to deal with.

We have to try to bring our values
since we believe they're good,

just like anyone else who has values
which they try to propagate;

we have to do the same.

I do believe that the solution
to all our problems is that

[repeats Shahada in Arabic],

there's no god but Allah and
Muhammad is his prophet.

I do believe that if everyone
followed that to the T,

there would be no problems.

On September 11th, Osama bin Laden
let down the Muslim community

when he didn't speak
against the acts, one thing,

and when he didn't choose the
opportunity actually to advance Islam.

My sisters who wear the veil,

did not take the Metro,

did not take the public transportation,

we went, we found every means
for them to always have a ride

where they were going

and always have a ride back
especially at night.

My sister who's getting married soon,

I don't think she's intending
to go back to Iraq,

I think her and her husband are
intending to go to the Arab Emirates

to live there so,

for the first time my immediate
family is going to be split,

that's going to be uncomfortable.

And it's not easy when
you're in the middle of class

and you have to get up while,
during the lecture, and go pray,

and come back,

and miss 10 minutes of the lecture.

You know all eyes
are going to be on you,

and some people don't care and
other people find that very hard.

It's part of standing out.

♪ [band plays, man sings]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) We split
about a year ago,

now we're all back together

because we've been given
an opportunity

to play a showcase
in front of record executives

and hopefully strike a deal.

We're approaching
these record labels,

we're all Canadian-Americans,

so in that sense I think our chances
are better off that way.

People don't necessarily
have to know that we're Arabs,

behind it.

(Hanna) I wouldn't be ashamed
to say that I'm Arab.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) But I mean if
you're gonna get a record label

with an American label
or a Canadian label,

you have to be Canadian or American,

that's the way it works.

(Waleed) Definitely there's
a market for us as Arabs

who have lived there, come
abroad, done our music,

to go back and-

(Hanna) Bring something fresh
and new to the Middle East.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Yeah, absolutely,
I think they will be very receptive-

(Hanna) Which they're lacking
at this point.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Here's
where the record labels are,

here's where the biggest
opportunity and funding

or whatever may be behind the bands is.

Take advantage of it here,
and get it out there,

and then hopefully
take it back there.

♪ [band plays, man sings]

(Osama Dorias) We had
casualties in the first war

and we had casualties in the Iraq-Iran war

and we've had casualties in between.

Of course my family isn't
with the regime at all,

people that were against the regime,

my uncle, my cousins,
were put to death.

But for some wonderful reason
everyone was spared in this war,

everything's okay.

(Mr. Dorias) Nobody understands,

actually, the dilemma of
the Iraqi people, except us,

we are happy to see this dictator go,

and I hope we're going
to be more happy

when we see our friend
the America leave our country

because we don't want
any conflict with them.

(Ossama El-Naggar) As far
as political Islam,

and the fact that there are some
people who are politically angry,

I think it's just they have
justifications to be angry.

[crowd shouts]
♪ [music plays]

(Osama Shalabi) As far as
socially and politically,

I don't think things look too great.

The whole recolonization of
the Middle East you know,

sort of seems to be
slowly moving forward,

which of course is going to backfire,

I mean, that's going to
just become a huge mess.

♪ [band plays middle eastern music]

(Ossama El-Naggar) I'm as peace
loving and relaxed as I am

but I haven't lost my home,

I haven't been expelled
from my village,

I haven't seen my father
humiliated at checkpoints.

If I had,
I don't know how I would be,

may even someone like me
would be violent, who knows?

And I don't think
that's unique to Muslims,

I think if you take people
in South Carolina

and subject them to
that kind of behavior,

they might also become terrorists.

♪ [band plays middle eastern music]

♪ [band plays middle eastern music,
man sings]

[tanks rumble]

[fire crackles]

♪ [music plays]

[bombs explode]

[baby cries]

[construction equipment rumbles]

[tree snaps]
♪ [music plays]

[boy chants in Arabic]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Since September
11th, people are afraid from Islam

because everybody say Islam
belong to the terrorist people.

And this is something
very, very, very wrong.

Everywhere you have the bad people
and you have the good people.

[man chants in Arabic]

Our role here is to teach how they
have to behave with other people,

how they have to live every day.

[children read in Arabic]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Not to forget Islam.

To integrate into society.

[teacher reads aloud,
children repeat]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Always
the role of religion

is to conduct people in a good way.

[children sing in foreign language]

♪ [band plays]

[woman screams]

[gun fires, crowd yells, baby cries]

♪ [band plays]

(Osama El-Demerdash) I'm going
to the municipal court,

in old Montreal.

Been like a year ago
I was arrested with about 300,

more than 300 people about
a hundred minors of them,

who were demonstrating against
police brutality on March 15th,

which is sort of known,
not very widely known,

as the international day
against police brutality,

and today I think they're trying to
set up a trial for next year somehow,

two years later if you imagine.

I was charged with unlawful assembly,
which is a criminal charge.

The people there were not
threatening other people.

They might have sprayed graffiti

but you know, that happens
every day on every street so.

Anyway, I'm nowhere
in their evidence.

Of course, I cannot go to
any other demonstrations.

If you were just arrested another time,

while you have another case pending
then it makes things worse.

♪ [music plays]

(Osama El-Demerdash) We don't even know
if we are going to go in today or not.

We don't know if we don't go today
what will happen,

we don't know anything,

we're just standing out there
and that's it.

Outside people got
so it became like surrealist,

you know, people started,

they're playing soccer actually,
in front of the courtroom.

I don't have any respect
for their whole process,

for anybody, for justice, for you know,

for their crown, for their queen,

I don't care, basically

because this is
what is happening you know,

they have no respect for us,

on my whole day I'm like
a prisoner inside the court.

(Ossama El-Naggar) Sometimes people
have a stereotype of who is an Arab.

I believe that at least 70% of Arab
immigrants in Montreal are Christians,

and they come from Lebanon,

they come from Egypt,

they come from Syria,

they come from Iraq.

Hardly any that come from
Saudi Arabia or the Gulf States.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) That year
in particular in '97

I was really looking forward to
spending some time with my dad,

and I got to Egypt and three
days later he passed away.

And it was the day we were
actually supposed to sit down

and actually discuss everything
that's going on in my life, you know.

It'd been a year,
I'm away from the family,

you know, being an independent
person sort of say,

as an individual you
always put this notion

that your parents are indestructible,

you know, there's this force
above you that

nothing's gonna ever bring them down,

and to just see it fall
and crumble is just,

I don't know,
it changes your whole outlook on life.

♪ [choir sings]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) You find
churches in every Muslim city,

in every Muslim country,

people practice their religions freely.

Majority of Osamas
are most likely Muslim,

however there are people that I do
know who are also other Christians

also called Osama.

There are several names that
kind of cross boundaries in Arabic

and I think Osama is one of them.

It just tends to be the stereotype
these days that

you say Arabic you think
Muslim in most cases,

which isn't the case at all.

(Waleed) My name is Waleed and
Waleed is a completely Muslim name.

And there is a Christian Muhammed,

that I've met,
that shocked the hell out of me.

And the prophet Asah
is a Christian name-

(Osama Al-Sarraf) -- is a Christian
name however there-

(Waleed) There's Muslim Asahs.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Yeah.

(Waleed) So, those are the two
big ones that I got shocked about.

(Osama Dorias) The Muslim basketball
tournament has many objectives,

one of which is you have
to have Islamic values

when you deal with other people.

Part of that you know,

training for that, is sports,

it's part of it,

you have to deal with other people,

you have to communicate as a team.

[claps]

It's also for us a way
to get Muslims into Islam

if you know what I mean,

but if you're Muslim and
you're not even usually used to praying,

you pray with us.

It gets you into it.

And then we stop and have a little talk

and the talk is usually
about something directly

about basketball and Islam
if you noticed.

(man #1) When you look at the
characters of the Muslims now

it's a depressing thing.

The reason why it was not
discussed in the past

is because Muslims never had
a problem with their character.

The tradition of Islam was that

Muslims were people
of excellent character

and they'd instill the character
that they had in their children.

This is the Islamic tradition.

(Osama Dorias) It's not
just entertainment.

It's a tool to strengthen
the community as well,

from our age group and younger.

So that when they get older

they'll have at least a link
to the Islamic community.

(man #2) If you look around,

you'll see a lot of different people
from different countries.

It's hard to find two people even
who are talking to each other

who have the same background.

The only common bond
between them is their Islam.

One of the rules is
that if you swear,

the other team gets a free throw.

In Islam there's a dress code,

you're not allowed for men to show

between your belly button
and your knees.

[timer buzzes]

♪ [middle eastern music plays]

♪ [middle eastern music plays]

♪ [music plays]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) I've always been
interested in trying to take Arabic music

and trying to add some
electronic beats to it.

I was actually able to
get a piece of music,

an ode from Osama Shalabi.

♪ [music plays]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) It's kind of like the
Arabic classical meets electronica today.

I do consider myself influenced
a lot by the Arab culture.

I lived there for about
18 years of my life

and I try to bring that as much as I can
with the music I do today.

Of course I do have a lot of
North American influence in me,

and to bring a blend between
the two has been something

I've always tried to do in my music,

and it's more in the actual rhythmical
nature of the percussive beats

that do come into my songs.

You do feel a bit of that
influence here and there.

♪ [music plays]

[man shouts, crowd chants]

(Osama El-Demerdash) As long as
I'm here I will demonstrate

and if I stay here
I will demonstrate forever.

[crowd shouts, chants]

(Osama El-Demerdash) I'm definitely
against the WTO agenda

and against foreign governments
how they handle foreign trade.

Governments like here,
like in Canada, like in the States,

they actually do these
agreements with dictatorships

that do not represent their people
in the third world countries.

Like Saddam Hussein,
like Iraq, like many,

like most of the third world
country governments

and what happens
is these governments

do not look after
their own peoples' interests.

[Batons clang against shields]

(Osama El-Demerdash) This is immoral.

The people who benefit
in the end are businesses,

dictators in other countries,

and governments here eventually,

who want to stay in power.

♪ [music plays]

♪ [man sings, band plays]

(Osama Al-Sarraf) We're back
in our studio,

recording some more stuff,

working on new songs,

and trying to make them
as best as can be,

and next is to go to New York.

(Osama Dorias) Islamically, even
after they consummate the marriage,

there's supposed to be
what we call a walima,

which is like an Islamic gathering

where people congratulate them
on their successful wedding.

[men chant in foreign language]

(girl) What's his name?

(Osama Dorias) Yasser, just
like Arafat but better looking.

[men chant, play tambourines]

(Osama Dorias) The second party it's
supposed to be only women that go.

The only men that show up

it's at the end, her brothers,
and her uncles and cousins

but none of them are here for us,

and his brothers, his uncles and cousins

are supposed to come as well.

[guests clap]

[crowd chants and clap]

(Osama Dorias) We're going
to follow them to their house

and we're going to make a lot of noise

and wake up all their neighbors.

[car horns honk]

[people speak in French]

(Ossama El-Naggar) Even though
I speak French fluently

and I think of French as my first
language even more than Arabic,

I don't think I'm perceived as
being Quebecois by my friends.

[man laughs]

(Ossama El-Naggar) They like me
just as much,

I don't think it's a problem.

[group laughs and claps]

[group laughs]

(Ossama El-Naggar) Whether
it's here or anywhere else

I guess I create my own community

because I don't like to identify
as being part of a group

that is predefined by its ethnic,
religious, linguistic, whatever,

I just think that's so absurd to feel
that you are part of a group

because of something
that you haven't chosen.

I've just made a point of having
as diverse a group as I could

just because I like to break the mold.

♪ [men sing, play drum]

♪ [men sing, play drum]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) We are
very sad because our father,

he was like our brother,
like our friend.

He was only 63 years old.

♪ [man sings]

(Bilal Al-Jundi) In Islam we should
accept death like we accept life.

This is the cycle of life,

this is the will of God
and we accept it.

[men chant in Arabic]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) Now I am 42 years old.

You know, and my life is here.

And Canada is open for everybody.

But the problem only is the weather,

little bit cold.

(Osama El-Demerdash) I'm not
that active anymore.

I felt that if I do more activism
it will be just more of the same,

that there will be more arrests,

it's very risky.

I don't shout aloud my
political feelings anymore,

I keep it to myself.

I just follow the news.

There was a court hearing today
for a Palestinian refugee,

his name is Osama Saleh,
from the West Bank.

He had a deportation order

and they were reviewing his case
in front of the court.

♪ [music plays]

(Osama Dorias) We're in the store
that my father used to be partners in.

Before he went to Iraq.

He actually found a job with the
government there in the Ministry of Oil

or something like that,

and it's not that the caliber
he was before

but it's something.

My father went through a lot of jobs
when he first came to Canada actually.

He used to work menial jobs at first,
anything he could find to.

He worked in a gas station,
an alarm company,

in anything, anything
he could get his hands on,

and one day he just
saved up enough money

and with another partner
they opened up a little boutique.

He actually has big dreams
of our family all moving there,

in three or four years
when everything is,

you know, stable.

I'd go back to visit definitely,
but to live there?

I don't know, I consider myself more
Canadian more than Iraqi to be honest.

My mother obviously
misses my father.

But she is coping with it.

(Osama Dorias) It's incredible food.

I love my mom's cooking.

I can eat anywhere

but no one cooks better than my mom.

(Mrs. Dorias) Thank you, Osama.

[family laughs]

♪ [band plays]

(photographer) We have
some familiar faces.

Some of the other Osamas.

(Ossama El-Naggar) Hello.

Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama.

(Ossama El-Naggar) Canada is to
an extent the beacon to the world,

it's how hopefully the future
universe will be like.

An open place which is accepting,

we integrate,

we end up learning how to belong,

a place I'm proud to live in
and be part of,

it's not a hard thing
to assume an identity,

it's something pleasant to be.

(Photographer) She's
going to do the makeup,

just a bit of makeup to
take off the shine and-

(Osama Dorias) Well, the brushes
it's okay but otherwise not,

no physical contact,
sorry, no offense.

(makeup artist) Okay, okay,
no, no no.

(Osama Dorias) I'm not ashamed
to say that Muslim comes first.

(Osama Dorias) It's okay.

(Osama Dorias) There are
a lot of people here

who just basically want to
assimilate more than they need to,

I mean, people here are very
welcoming of other cultures.

We have these values,

we should spread them,

and that's how we're going to
make it easier for ourselves.

(Osama Dorias) Mmm, feels nice.

(Osama Shalabi) I guess
just do what I've always done,

which is just try and write what
I think of as traditional Arabic music

which is not really that traditional,
I don't think.

I'm Arabic you know,
and, but I'm also Canadian.

♪ [band plays]

(Oussama Al-Jundi) I always wish
the best for me and for all of the people.

No matter what their religion is,

we are all from the same planet.

(Osama Al-Sarraf) But for the time being,

I'm here, this is home for me,

and I'm going to try and pursue
as much as I can here,

build my career,
build my name if I can,

and then hopefully, you know,

go over there from time to time,

play a few shows.

(photographer) Okay, that's good

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Make a mesh
of both cultures.

(photographer) Okay, Osama-

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Which one?

[group laughs]

(Osama El-Demerdash) I'm trying
to leave Canada in the future.

I hope to find a way out.

[photographer growls, laughs]

(Osama El-Demerdash) What is this?

(Osama El-Demerdash) Whether I will
have won or lost I would have left anyway.

(photographer) Excellent, perfect,

good, okay.

Now I want some interaction,
let's loosen up a bit.

(group) Whoa!

(Osama Al-Sarraf) Ever since
working on this movie,

I am, do not hesitate twice
about saying my name is Osama.

That's no longer I’m Sam, Sarraf,
or anything like that,

my name is Osama.

[group laughs]

(Osama Dorias) That's a dirty look,
oh my god,

it's always you, too.

♪ [music plays]