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The darling of the Emmy Awards is causing a dust-up in the Mideast. Lebanese officials are complaining that scenes from Homeland revealing Beirut as a nest of terrorists are way off base. They don't even show the actual city because the scenes were shot in ... Haifa, Israel. Israelis are also miffed that the scenes featuring the mission of a slightly psychotic (now fired) CIA agent played by Claire Danes fail to show Haifa's sophistication, reports AP. At least Lebanon plans to get tough—sort of, reports the Independent.
“This kind of film damages the image of Lebanon. It's not fair to us and it's not true,” says Lebanon's tourism minister. “We are planning to raise a lawsuit against the director and the producer.” But then he adds that he would like any further scenes to actually be shot in Beirut. “We would like to welcome the crews here to film in this city," he says. "We were offended by the fact that they filmed the thing in Israel and said it was Beirut." No word yet from Homeland.
