Lewis Alsamari
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Lewis Alsamari is an Iraqi-born actor now based in England. He was granted asylum in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. He has appeared in episodes of television series such as Spooks and Crossroads. He recently starred in the Universal Pictures film United 93 as the terrorist Saeed Al Ghamdi.
Alsamari was denied a visa by US immigration authorities when he applied to visit New York City to attend the premiere of United 93. The reason given was that he had once been a conscripted member of the Iraqi army - although this was also the grounds for his refugee status after his desertion in 1993 [1].
Alsamari has just been cast in an Edinburgh Festival fringe bound production of "What I Heard About Iraq," based on the Eliot Weinberger article of the same name that originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2005.[2]
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- ^ 9/11 film actor refused visa for US premiere April 21, 2006 The Times
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