ABSTRACT
Ligiah Villalobos, writer/producer of the independent feature La Misma Luna also worked as screenwriter on a Latino adaptation of an Israeli film. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and critic whose book Things Fall Apart sold eight million copies and was adapted into a Nigerian television show directed by David Oriere, Things Fall Apart, wrote:If the philosophical dictum of Descartes, "I think, therefore I am" represents a European individualistic ideal, the Bantu declaration "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" represents an Africa communal aspiration: "A human is human because of other humans". However, by 1995, something else was happening to women in Mexico who, like Alma, strive to escape the poverty of Midaq Alley. Salma Hayek is as beautiful as the Egyptian character, brushing her long, silky black hair in Mahfouz' novel while contemplating whether or not to give her body away to the highest bidder.
