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Filmmaker · Libya

Moustapha Akkad

Died in 2005

Moustapha Akkad was born in 1930 in Aleppo, Syria, and left at eighteen to study cinema in Los Angeles, where he became Sam Peckinpah's assistant. He produced the Halloween horror film series, whose takings financed his own projects, and devoted himself to bringing the past of the Arab and Muslim worlds to the screen, with a film on the beginnings of Islam in 1976, then a Libyan epic in 1981. He was killed with his daughter in 2005, aged seventy-five, in the Amman bombing claimed by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, while attending a wedding in a hotel.

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