Reluctant Revolutionary

Sana’a tour operator Kais just about manages to scrape together a living from the few fearless travelers who dare to come to Yemen. At first Kais is skeptical about the protesters that set up their vigil against President Saleh at the beginning of the wave of Arab Spring protests, but once he begins working for this film’s director as a translator, he and his younger brother Abdulrahman both join in protests which even peacefully unite members of tribes that are otherwise at enmity. In these difficult times Kais feels responsible for hjis family and the English filmmaker…