Director’s doc on Rev. Khader El-Yateem’s City Council run set to premiere on nationwide television
A documentary on Rev. Khader El-Yateem, a Palestinian American and Lutheran pastor who was active in Bay Ridge for many years, is premiering on television nationwide on WORLD Channel Dec. 14.
“Brooklyn Inshallah,” directed and produced by Ahmed Mansour, followed the 43rd District City Council race in 2017. Then-Councilmember Vincent Gentile was being term-limited out, and El-Yateem — who now holds a post with the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Florida and lives in that state — was campaigning to become the first Arab American elected to the City Council in New York City.
Mansour came to Brooklyn from Gaza in 2015 and was filming several videos and documentaries as a student at NYU. Following the 2016 presidential election, he went to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, interviewed several attendees and encountered rioting.