The students at Wheaton College were surprised: Wait, Saint Augustine was African? “The West is more acquainted with Augustine than we are in North Africa,” said Aicha Ben Ahmed, the Tunisian actress who played Monica, Augustine’s long-suffering mother. “Saint Augustine is a very strong and perplexing character,” he told Watani, an Egyptian Christian newspaper. Augustine is the first known effort to film his story on location with all local actors. Directed by Egyptian filmmaker Samir Seif, Augustine won the audience award at the 2017 ...1

Source: The North Africa Journal March 15, 2019 18:56 UTC