"'Walk past ancient Egypt and then turn left at Tibet,' says Amine Tazi, general manager of Africa’s largest film and studio complex. 'That’s where we filmed the Saudi tv series Omar,' about the second caliph of Islam, Omar ibn al-Khattab. If the desert film sets look even vaguely familiar to a visitor, he explains, that’s because they probably are: Recently they were also backdrops for, among other things, episodes of the us television hits Homeland and Game of Thrones. But Omar took a full six months of shooting to produce 30 episodes, in Arabic. That was solid business for the two studios Tazi manages, Atlas and CLA, which were, until this year, solely responsible for making the town of Ouarzazate, poised between the Sahara desert and the Atlas Mountains in eastern Morocco, into a continental capital of cinema. ..."
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