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Going Home (1996 Film, Video)

Director

Omar Al-Qattan

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £11.00

Major Derek Cooper, a witness to the final days of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1948, was so moved by the dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the creation of the state of Israel that he...

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Feminism Inshallah: A History of Arab Feminism (2014)

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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Battle of Algiers, The (1965)

aka: Battaglia di Algeri, La

Director

Gillo Pontecorvo

Producer

Antonio Musi; Yacef Saadi

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A realistic reconstruction of the fight for liberation in Algiers between 1954 and 1957, resulting in 1962 in a free Algerian state. The film was banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest, but it...

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Sweet France (1992 Video)

Director

Mogniss H Abdallah; Ken Fero

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., £20.00 (hire) £30.00 (sale)

Traces the experiences of the Arab community in France from the Algerian Revolution to the uprisings by Arab youg across the country in recent years. Although unemployment is a national concern, people...

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Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

Producer

Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Director

Emad Burnat; Guy Davidi

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £5.99

Filmed from the perspective of Emad, a Palestinian farm labourer, this documentary was shot using six different video cameras, five of which were destroyed in the process of documenting Emad’s family’s...

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