Ten days in a desert town going bust
Prize-winning film turns a lens on a nontouristic Jordan-Iraq border
By Jim Quilty
Daily Star staff
Friday, February 17, 2006
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Emptied of its residents, the Jordanian town of Ruwayshed could be a movie set for any derelict town along a desert highway to someplace else. As it's Ruwayshed, it is the last stop on the road to the Iraqi border. For 10 days in April 2005 a small crew arrived with a digital video camera and filmed some of the town's residents going about their business.
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