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Post 9/11, Norma Khouri’s Forbidden Love, recounting the shocking 'honour killing' of her best friend in Jordan, was a non-fiction best-seller. The demurely virginal Khouri became the toast of the book trade and a human rights heroine. Then, in 2004, Sydney journalist Malcolm Knox investigated her story and declared Love a lie. Norma Khouri was in fact a Chicago real estate agent and mother of two, on the run from the FBI for a million-dollar fraud.
To this day Khouri maintains that her story is essentially true. She accepts the offer to return to Jordan to prove it in Anna Broinowski’s extraordinary documentary. Mesmerized by the proliferation of fantastic stories and stories within stories, Broinowski exhibits her own pleasure in story-telling by keeping us gob-smacked every step of the way. Her journey into the world of a remorseless con artist is as richly populated and as enthralling in its improbability as the most outrageous psychological thriller. 

Documentary

Drama

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Anna Broinowski

Norma Khouri

Malcolm Knox

Rachel Richardson

John Toliopoulos

Rana Husseini

A docu-drama following Norma Khouri, who wrote the best-selling novel 'Forbidden Love' only to later be revealed as being wanted by the FBI for a million-dollar fraud...

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