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He repeated week after week:

"I gave my word and my sons to this treaty."

"Which we made under the eyes of God."

And you are showing me no reason why I start a revolt.

But you surely told him,

That the wealth of oil was a gift of ALLAH?

Aah he seemed to take the opposite view.

The Sultan wants you to know that,

He considers the exploaitation of The Yellow Belt....

A violation Of The Treaty.

If Amar wants war, he will have war!

Iam joining Father, don't say anything.

Lets go to war.

It is our land!

Shall we, gentlemen.

Again!

We just came back.

Don't be lazy!

It's hunting season.

Look, He he he... is negotiating okay

just just up his stake.

I already tried that, Mr. Thurkettle,

But he said.... money has no value.

What? no really well never heard that before.

Naturally you offerred to return the boys.

Of course, as your Majesty instructed.

Auda.. Auda my dear boy, come over here.

These are confusing times,

But we will find a way through them.

Where is your brother?

I think he was some what dissapointed.

So he just went out to....

Get some fresh air.

My beauty....

Fly for me.

Ooh she is so beautiful.

Please, no no!

Prince Auda must have known about his brothers plan.

He is clearlly ccomplicant to this heinous crime.

You've always been a brother to me, anyway.

It is said that every man has three tasks to accomplish in this world.

To plant a palm tree, to dig a well..

And to father a son.

Have you already accomplished one of the three?

I shall peermit you...

with ALLAH'S blessing.

To start with the easiest of the three.

Instead of trying,

The remaining hostage, Auda,

Brother of the evil murderer Saleh.

Nesib,

king Of Hobeika.

Over lords of The Southern Tribes,

Has threw a stunning act of clemency,

Seen fit to adopt Auda,

Into his own family.

And offer in the sacred bonds of marriage,

His daughter, Princess Leyla.

Sign here.

Just Sign!

I hereby declare the previous treaty between the House Of Amar,

And the House Of Nesib

Null and void.

Let us recite Al Fatiha.

Go! Go!

Over there!

It is a token of my appreciation.

They are made in a place called...

Switzerland!

Sir! King Nesib...

Be sure that all the Beni Sirris are proud to be with you, Thank you.

Ooh... the Beni Sirris are very welcome in the house.

This is for you.

I have one exactly like this.

We are now brothers. You and me brothers

Don't forget it.

Brothers!

How long has it been?

You remember.

You were so exotic,

Like a boy from a book.

Would you like to see, what I look like now?

You are allowed to unviel me.

I have had myself....

Dressed as a Bedouin girl for you.

You don't like it?

I would never imagine that you...

Would become so beautiful.

Please Princess, can't you see this is a trap?

A trap?

How?

The only reason your father wants us married,

Is so I no longer be a hostage.

So he would be free to go to battle with my father.

This wasn't a wedding,

It was a declaration of war.

I could have gone to Salmaah.

I should have gone.

As Nesib's Emissary.

Who is better suited than me to talk to my own father?

Why did no body think of that?

Because they are blind to me.

And if we get married,

There is no room to maneuver.

Are we not married already?

Strictly speaking, not yet.

Its just politics Princess, politics....

Then, all these years I have been....

Spying on you through this moucharabiehs.

When you walked down the library, weight down with your books,

Looking so wise and serious...

Thats politics?

You were promised to Ibn Idris.No! No!

I was promised to no man.

I went to my father,

And I chose you.

Me...

But you haven't chosen Saleh? Saleh....

He is a good brother to you.

But to me, he is just an another Arab Prince,

with a falcon who worships the past.

Come here.

My mother she looked outside this window,

And saw what?

An unchanging world.

But you,

you are clever and sensitive.

Its alright, Prince Auda.

Look....

You're in the harem.

Its the one place in earth,

where we are allowed to,

Drop our veils.

Assalamu Alaikum Ibn Idris.

Walaikum Salam.

So I can only assume that you run out of bullets?

Nesib wants him alive.

He said he pay our families the price of blood.

Aah, lets not complicate things.

The guards you killed were my cousins.

You can't shoot me, Ibn Idris, Iam a prince.

No! You were a prince.

Saleh is dead.

What?

She would never leave him.

Never.

Good Morning, Father.

The apple of my eye!

Are you well?

Am I well?

Why are you not with your husband?

Did he dishonour you?

Isn't that aah...

Rather the point of wedding night?

No. He is the gentlest of men.

May I ask you something?

Is Saleh dead?

Father, here.

Have I ever asked you for a favour?

All the time.

Sometimes I think its the sole reason God put

me on earth.

What do you want?

I have been thinking.

We have been thinking.

What a blessing for us....

To have in our household,

A son of two fathers.

Now, Shouldn't I the father who wants nothing,

But peace,

Not send this son,

To the father who seems,

Blinded by war?

To remind this God Fearing man,

That in the Holy Quran,

The word "PEACE",

Is mentioned twice as much,

As the word "WAR"?

You are an Emissary Of Hobeika,

But more importantly...

You are now my son.

And Leyla's husband.

I haven't finished yet!

Tell Amar,

I don't want conflict,

But I waont flee from it.

And this time...

They are with me.

You can go now.

My daughter asks permission to ride with her husband to the gate.

She has never been in an auto-mobile before.

Do you remember any of this Prince?

Not really.

Moule Sultan....

Your son is here.

Saleh?

Actually, its Auda... father.

Peace be with you.

Auda, of course.

Forgive me, its been too many years.

Its Fifteen.

That long?

Now you are a man.

ALHAMDU LILLAH.

Where is Saleh?

He is no longer with us.

Why? Where is he?

He is entered ALLAH'S grace, Father.

He killed his guard and was killed in turn.

He killed his guard? Why?

He escaped when the delegation returned from Salmaah.

You obviously did not escape.

I come here as an Emissary.

Who's Emissary?

An Emissary Of Peace. I hope.

Is that why you come with Nesibe soldiers?

In an infidels car.

Amir, this was simply the most expedient way.

And Nesibe Council speak for you.

Your houses are united now Majesty.

Auda?

I married Leyla, father.

You married Nesib's daughter while they

slaughtered your brother.

Father allow me to explain myself.

You will explain.

You will.

But these people they return to Hobeika.

My laws of hospitality does not extend

to the killers of my son.

Forgive me, Princess.

It's alright.

Latifa....

Play something about love.

Do you think he would have been killed

if you had refused this wedding?

I think there might have been people who council Nesib....

That he would have had a freer hand, with out me.

Then, under the Takeyya principle,

Which gives a Muslim the right to dissumalte

if he thinks his life is threatened,

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