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By N Janardhan
Oct 23, 2002
DUBAI - To protest tough new US immigration checks on nationals from Muslim countries, Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi sent over to US President George W Bush the prize he won at the just-finished Chicago International Film Festival, which he missed.
Ghobadi won a Gold Plaque for his film Marooned in Iraq, cited for its "idiosyncratic fusion of comic fairy tale and searing reportage into a compelling human statement", at the October 4-18 festival.
Ghobadi's failure to get a visa is just one of several incidents that has angered the Islamic world, the sort of incident that has prompted countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to announce that they would impose the same measures against US visitors as are applied by the US against Saudi and UAE nationals.
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