Arab cinema
short link to this page: http://bit.ly/arabcinema
Contents
Course outline
Maps
Map of Middle East and North Africa
Required Readings
- What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity. For Oct 12 (8 pages)
- Unlocking the Arab Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in Egyptian Film by Garay Menicucci. For Oct 12. (6 pages)
- Islamists in Egyptian Cinema, by Walter Armbrust. For Oct 14 (10 pages)
- Egypt's Tortured Present, by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. For Oct 14. (3 pages)
- Palestinian Cinema. For Oct 21. (35 pages)
- Rebbecca Hillaur 2005. Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. pp. 173 - 177.(to be added for Nov 16).
- Iraq: Poetry International Web (for Nov 23).
- Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. (to be added for Nov 30)
- Sexuality and Gendered Space Halfaoine. (to be added for Dec 1)
Recommended Readings
- al-Jabarti
- Tahtawi
- Sharabi: Arab Intellectuals and the West
- The Culture of Imperialism and Reform (Albert Hourani)
- The Nahda, Popular Fiction And The Politics Of Translation
- "Orientalism Definition"
- Construction of Masculinity
- Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai
- more of Darwish
- Amira Hass
- Marcel Khalife
- Sargon Boulus
Links
http://www.arabfilm.com/ (Arab film distributor in Seattle, USA)
http://www.imdb.com/ (general information on movies)
http://www.allocine.fr (general information on movies)
http://www.artfilm.com (Arab film distributor in London, UK)
http://www.egyfilm.com/ (film news in Arabic)
Egypt Country Study (LOC) (other countries also located here)
Interactive timeline of Middle Eastern history since 1900
Arab culture and civilization (NITLE Arab World Project)
History of Islamic Civilization (BBC)
Chronological history of Islam to present
Another set of histories of Islamic civilization
Links 2
1- The rise of Arab cinema:
Lumiere Brothers 1896 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFuUyGSnSI
Lumiere Egypt 1896 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCeIBerBKJg
Queen Elizabeth (France, 1912) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYnGJQ-ku0
First Egyptian film 1923 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnCqYo3LVfo&feature=PlayList&p=DA7E1D2C97F2F0BE&index=0&playnext=1
Barsoum. 1923 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0PmDqZco_4
The First Egyptian Talkies Sons of the Elite(Awlad el Zawat)1932 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5fxmLB6UY
The second: El warda elbaida, 1933 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JUcTuTd1rI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUp3PoRtGI
American films in Cairo 1936- Mr. Deeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAWmOKzK2w4
Film al- Azima 1939 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZ3Xdkaguw&feature=related
Umm Kolthoum 1940 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfpdlKALsQ
Asmahan's song from 1943 film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNU5pSEWFIg
Abu Nuwas http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/
Umm Kolthoum. Mirzahi. Film Salama 1945
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfpdlKALsQ
2- Arab Cinema: Adaptation and realism:
Film al- Azima 1939 (Determination) by Kamal Selim. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZ3Xdkaguw&feature=related
Layla 1942 by Togo Mizrahi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4ILH38nTU
Abi fawq al- shagra My Father is up the Tree (1969) by Hussein kamal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjiYgOLQXU
Bidaya wa Nihaya 1960 (Beginning and End)by Salah Abu Seif. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5sBdMFK6zM
Alqahira 30- 1966 (Cairo 30) by Salah Abu Seif. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9TIdUoyh0&feature=related
Barakat http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052897/
al Ard - 1968(The land) by Youssef Chahine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXsKf9d2-yE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcEQlYd9viI&feature=related
Bab elhadid- 1958 (Cairo Station) by Youssef Chahine.
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uamVB5mYMBo&feature=related
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSz-oGwSPe4&feature=related
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k24AV06e20&feature=related
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZB4PSgUVFQ&feature=related
5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MQupAw4izc&feature=related
6- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_0nYR_8KI&feature=related
7- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MRNDVrwJ38&feature=related
8- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCl8DRZUdw&feature=related
Saladin- 1963 by Youssef Chahine.
The Mummy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2X7ekWMkzw
New Realism:
Take care of Zuzu!! 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNdWwpmOmkM
Atif El- Tayeb, The Bus driver 1982.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPnm38mR_k
Daoud Abd El- Sayed: El-Kitkat 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZgxJFyCWNg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6Gi_KzCxk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mz65v1lGK8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901ms-GOLW0&p=2E6622BAB3842FB8&playnext=1&index=3
A Citizen, A Detective And A Thief 2001 by Daoud Abdel Sayed
http://www.arabfilm.com/item_print.html?itemID=405
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1624483623747893588#docid=5010567046073150028
Yacoubian Building
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7241952052961388418#