The Hulu/Channel 4 detective story, set in Iraq after the U.S invasion of 2003, centers the perspective of Muhsin Khafaji (Waleed Zuaiter) and his family.
A piano plays a minor-key waltz as the slouching silhouette of Muhsin Khafaji, a disgraced detective, walks up a dilapidated alleyway. So opens “Baghdad Central,” a six-part police serial produced by Britain’s Channel 4, with the Iraqi capital sometime after 2003 as its backdrop.
“Is there not one person in the entire United States of America who understands my country? Who has a ... clue what they’re doing in my country?” asks Khafaji.Pity the Arab actor in the West: When their ethnicity isn’t a barrier, they’re often relegated to the role of crazed terrorist or ardent souk purveyor.That was precisely where Zuaiter found himself a few months before he got the script for “Baghdad Central.
“It took my reps at the time and my wife behind the scenes conspiring for me to put myself on tape because they knew I was perfect for it,” he said. He sat down for a closer reading of the script. “What do you think liberty and freedom looks like?” asks Carvel’s Frank Temple, an ex-Scotland Yard officer working in Iraq with the coalition and Khafaji’s boss. “It’s not a land of milk and honey and dancing horses; it’s a land of business, and market forces.”
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