Arab cinema

short link to this page: http://bit.ly/arabcinema

Maps

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OIC countries

Ottoman Empire

Map of Ottoman expansion

French Invasion of Egypt 1798

Kurdistan Map

Palatine/Israel

Maps of Palestine

Required Readings

• Rebbecca Hillaur 2005. Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. pp. 27- 32.

• Interview with Naguib Mahfouz from The Paris Review, Summer 1992

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"

• Orientalism Reconsidered, by Edward Said

• 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 (wikipedia)

Arabic language (wikipedia)

Arab culture and civilization (NITLE Arab World Project)

History of Islam (wikipedia)

History of Islamic Civilization (BBC)

Chronological history of Islam to present

Another set of histories of Islamic civilization

Islamic Chronology

Links 2

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFuUyGSnSI

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnCqYo3LVfo&feature=PlayList&p=DA7E1D2C97F2F0BE&index=0&playnext=1

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

Umm Kolthoum. Mirzahi. Film Salama 1945

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfpdlKALsQ

The Mummy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2X7ekWMkzw

Films

West Bayrouth 1

West Bayrouth 2

West Bayrouth 3

West Bayrouth 4

West Bayrouth 5

West Bayrouth 6

West Bayrouth 7

West Bayrouth 8

West Bayrouth 9

West Bayrouth 10

West Bayrouth 11

West Bayrouth 12