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- Subject
- Arabic studies; Space science
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £17.99
This film traces the little-known story of Lebanon’s space programme and tells how in the 1960s, scientists and students at the Armenian University in Beirut, led by Manoug Manougian, began developing and...
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- Director
- Tim Hohenboken
- Subject
- Politics & government
- Distribution
- Film (16mm)
Shot in Lebanon and Jordan. Shows the dilemma of the Palestinians living in refugee camps throughout the Arab world and their support for the liberation movement. Dr Nobil Sha’ath sees the return to...
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- Director
- Elizabeth Fernea; Marilyn Gaunt
- Subject
- Anthropology; Sociology
- Distribution
- Film (16mm)
Rashadiyah, a town in Southern Lebanon six miles from the Israeli border became, in 1964, a camp for 14,000 Palestinian refugees but in 1968 was destroyed by the Israelis. The camp later re-grouped. The film...
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- Director
- Naeem Mohaiemen
- Subject
- Film studies; History
- Distribution
- Film
A photograph showing five men: four stare out of a window, one looks at the camera. The light has a soft glow. The stage is a bombed building. All five men wear military clothes. Abu Ammar was the nom de...
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- Subject
- Development studies; Social welfare
- Distribution
- OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 min., 1999 sale: £16.00 (inclusive)
A compilation of eight short films made for Channel Four in which poor people speak for themselves. Participants come from Eritrea, Bangladesh, the UK, Canada, th USA, Lebanon, Nicaragua, and Hong Kong.
DVD Find Other Record only
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- Subject
- Psychology
- Distribution
- Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS (PAL). col. 91 min., 1997 sale: US$179.00 (+p&p)
A resource for studying cultural attitudes to gender, covering division of household labour, types of discipline for boys and girls, marriage decisions, control of money, society’s view of rape, care for...
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- Director
- Mamoun Hassan
- Producer
- Myrtle Winter Chaumeny
- Subject
- Politics & government
- Distribution
- Film (16mm)
Shows the lifestyle of a number of Palestinian refugees, including a doctor working in a busy clinic near Aleppo, a bereaved wife who explains how her family were recently killed in an attack on a camp in...
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- Director
- Jacqui Morris; David Morris (3)
- Subject
- Media studies
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes)
A documentary exploring the work of British photojournalist, Don McCullin, featuring contributions from Harold Evans, who was McCullin’s editor at the Sunday Times from 1969 to 1984, as well as McCullin...
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- Director
- Feriel Ben Mahmoud
- Subject
- Women’s studies
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 mins), $350 (institutional rate)
The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. The documentary...
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- Director
- Chip Duncan
- Subject
- History; Politics & government
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 180 minutes), $19.99
This three-hour programme offers an in-depth chronicle of Ronald Reagan’s years in the Oval Office, featuring interviews with Sandra Day O’Connor, Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Robert Reich, Bill...
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