Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The last time we saw Mo Najjar, he was stuck in Mexico, unwittingly having been driven across the Texas border by an olive-tree-thieving cartel. A Palestinian refugee without asylum status in the US, he has no way of legally re-entering the country that he and his family have called home for 30 years.The good news is that it is 2022. He may still be stranded, but \u201cPresident Trump to seal off the southern border to asylum seekers\u201d would sound more like an outlandish claim than an accurate headline.\u00a0That isn\u2019t to say Mo\u2019s journey back to Houston is a walk in the park. In fact, it involves a perilous river crossing which leads him straight into the sights of rifle-wielding border vigilantes. A stint in an ICE detention centre and a hearing in a Texas court follow. His lawyer tells him to \u201ctrust the process\u201d. But the process here is a form of bureaucratic sadism that would make Kafka break out in a cold sweat.Released in 2022, the first series of Mo was an offbeat character comedy, built around star and creator Mo Amer\u2019s own experiences as a refugee and a loving send-up of Palestinian culture. The sequel is more politically charged.\u00a0The first new episodes show how asylum seekers are mistreated and dehumanised \u2014 these scenes even timelier than Amer might have anticipated.But as before, Mo finds laughs where tears would be more expected. A cramped immigration holding cell becomes the scene of an enjoyable stand-off with an embittered guard. Elsewhere, Mo\u2019s shock at being propositioned by a US diplomat and his wife is amusingly eclipsed by a segue into one of the few subjects more uncomfortable than a cuckolding fetish: Israel-Palestine.At its most sincere, Mo laments how elusive a sense of home and security can be. But the show also celebrates the meaning of family and heritage and revels in the cultural juxtapositions found in contemporary America. The moving finale follows Mo and his family on their first visit to Palestine in decades. Warmly welcomed by long-missed relatives, the Najjars are treated like interlopers by soldiers at Tel Aviv airport and by Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The devastation to come is only hinted at by a brief but wrenching shot of a screen bearing the date: October 6, 2023.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606On Netflix now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The last time we saw Mo Najjar, he was stuck in Mexico, unwittingly having been driven across the Texas border by an olive-tree-thieving cartel. A Palestinian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-186338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186340,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338\/revisions\/186340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}