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The neighbors' dogs in Amjad's building act strangely and bark endlessly every time Amjad leaves or enters the building. Amjad hears from Meir that dogs can recognize Arabs and bark only at them. Amjad is deeply offended and tries to solve the dogs' barking problem. A salesperson at the pet store explains that dogs can smell the Arabs' fear and that the best way to calm the barking is for Amjad to raise a dog and so stop fearing. Amjad decides to buy a dog but gets into trouble when it turns out he accidentally bought the dog of Timna and Natan, the neighbors from upstairs.

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About Arab Labor

Link TV presents the U.S. broadcast premiere of the controversial hit Israeli comedy series Arab Labor (Avoda Aravit).

Created by Sayed Kashua, a 32-year-old Israeli-born Palestinian journalist, Arab Labor (translated from the Hebrew “Avoda Aravit” which colloquially implies “shoddy or second-rate work”) focuses on Amjad, a Palestinian journalist and Israeli citizen in search of his identity as he seeks high status in the society into which he was born but where his car is searched everyday when he drives from his neighborhood to his job at a newspaper in Jerusalem.

Poking fun at the cultural divide, Kashua and his characters play on religious, cultural and political differences to daringly depict the mixed society that is Israel.  This show marked a milestone on Israeli television as the first program to present Palestinian characters speaking Arabic on primetime. Arab Labor has generated great controversy between Arab and Israeli media and Link TV is premiering the program to the U.S. television audience in order to offer a fresh perspective on Israeli-Palestinian cultural friction while presenting an unbelievably entertaining show that has made an international splash.