Many people would struggle to cope, but Amira prays to God and has faith that things will improve.Perhaps most memorable and certainly most shocking is "Xenos" ("stranger" in Greek), a short film that shows young Palestinian men who have made their way down from the Ain El-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon, through Syria and Turkey into Greece, looking for a way into Europe.
Amira, a 21-year old student of political science, didn't expect a free and fair election either.
Amira is the "potato lady", a resilient housewife who has kept her family alive by selling fried potato sandwiches from her street stall since her husband became too ill to work.
Naji Ismail's "Om Amira" (pictured) is a heart-breaking domestic portrait set in a run-down Cairo apartment.
Amira, secretly married, is frustrated in her marketing career by an Islamist boss.
Amira sleeps with Will, initially because she wants to blackmail him into not reporting her son to the police.
In it Will Francis, an architect played by Jude Law, falls in love with Amira, a Bosnian refugee seamstress played by Juliette Binoche.Will meets Amira after he has chased off her teenaged son Miro, who is part of a Bosnian gang that has robbed his offices.
"Bouteflika might have won the election, but he will not win the heart of Algerians," says Amira, who struggles to see a future in Algeria for herself and her generation.
AMIRA Bouraoui is determined to finish what her parents' generation tried, but failed, to achieve: a democratic and free Algeria.
Three years ago, the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem awarded its "Righteous Among the Nations" medal, given to non-Jews who rescued Jews from the Nazis, to Mr Zanoli and (posthumously) his mother.On August 11th Haaretz's Amira Hass reports, Mr Zanoli sent Yad Vashem its medal back.
In the preface of this book he endorses the view of an Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, that the proper vocation of the reporter is to "monitor the centres of power".
