Posted on April 5, 2022
Three fifteen minute segments providing an overview of the Arab World, the role of Islam in the Arab World, and the major social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of Read More
Posted on January 27, 2022
Forget Baghdad tells the forgotten story of four Baghdadi-Jews, all former members of the Iraqi communist party who were forced to emigrate at Israel’s founding. The four elderly protagonists Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
For a month, a group of women, from 5 cities in Iraq, live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in Damascus. Everyday they are out on the Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
In the 2003 remains of a scarred Baghdad, confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric asylum. It is in this context that the past and Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
Palestinians Said and Khaled, now in young adulthood, have been lifelong friends living in Nablus in the West Bank. They have both had what they consider a difficult life, Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
One morning, spirited Rana (Clara Khoury), a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem, receives a startling note from her father, Abu Siad (Zuher Fahoum): She can either get married or Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
The mayor of a West Bank village wants his son to adhere to Palestinian tradition in his upcoming wedding. The trouble is, this custom conflicts with the curfew put Read More
