A few weeks ago, Manal Issa, star of @netflix "The Swimmers", reached out. She wanted to talk about her disheartening experience with the film but insisted that the interview would not go out until it streams so that her testimonial wouldn't overshadow the work of her colleagues After endless revisions and careful editing, here's the story of the making of "The Swimmers": the orientalist, shallow script, the unequal payments, and the mistreatment on set. This is the story the anglophone mainstream press did not deem worthy of reporting.