How to pronounce “barak” in English

Barak Obama is not a great high school student.

Barak Obama, in a very similar American sense, does a bit of self-creating himself.

Barak Obama had to learn how to do that.

Shish barak.

of Barak Obama's presidency, the most radical thing about Barak Obama, is very simply something we don't talk a hell of a lot about much anymore, is the fact that he is the first African-American

of Barak Obama.

And she had shish barak on the menu.

Now since "Barakah Barakah" or "Barakah Meets Barakah," I know that you've portrayed several varied and different roles.

No Lebanese restaurant has shish barak on the menu.

something that introduces the themes of Barak Obama's career, and the themes of the candidacy for the presidency.

And this African American poet-- Amiri Baraka, or LeRoi Jones, he was known--

Shish barak or kibbeh bi laban?

So a lot of us came to know you from "Baraka Meets Baraka," or, "Baraka Baraka."

And then when I graduated I starred in "Barakah Meets Barakah," I saw all of that depicted in a script.

Simultaneously I started The Other Story project with shooting "Barakah Meets Barakah" actually happened in the same month when I launched the film, the project,

I actually collected a couple of stories from the set of "Barakah Meets Barakah," and to me with storytelling, I mean cinema is storytelling.

And Barak Obama among his many attributes, positive attributes, is not lacking for considerable sense of self.

Barak Obama did not become president because of his vast legislative experience. Barak Obama did not become president because of his uniqueness

parts, and each part ends with Barak Obama in tears. It's not something we usually associate with Barak Obama.

I mean, who's Barak Obama?

and the first question from the crowd was, "Was Barak Obama really born in Honolulu?"

Yeah. Yeah. There's a play-- I think Amiri Baraka wrote a play.

And his latest book is called "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barak Obama".

And it's a reasonable question to ask why somebody would attempt to write a book about Barak Obama, very briefly into his presidency, where, after all, we are only

In March 2007, at yet another annual convening of this movement, Barak Obama,

There is no Barak Obama without Jesse Jackson no matter what you may think

There is no Barak Obama without Jesse Jackson. In fact, Barak Obama

That "Dreams from My Father", in a way, is the lodestar and the, the, the raw materials of what we know is the Barak Obama story.

Very popular, not a great congressman, but very popular and Barak Obama gets his butt kicked.

It would have been a pretty good life for Barak Obama, and he could

"Sure I'd like to give that speech," and he gives the speech of a lifetime that you, my guess is, everybody in this room first heard of Barak Obama, unless

In trying to write a biography about Barak Obama, one has to be careful of mythologies.

this last December. Now many of us saw Fatima for the first time in the hilarious and feel good film "Barakah Meets Barakah," a romantic comedy which

got quite a mouth on you, I'll tell you that, Alex.' 'Are you or are you not going to say a barakhah and taste the wine?'