Arab cinema
short link to this page: http://bit.ly/arabcinema
Contents
Course outline
Maps
Map of Middle East and North Africa
Required Readings
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
Lumiere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnCqYo3LVfo&feature=PlayList&p=DA7E1D2C97F2F0BE&index=0&playnext=1
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
The First Egyptian Talkies Sons of the Elite(Awlad el Zawat)1932
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5fxmLB6UY
???? ?? ???? ??????? 1939
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZ3Xdkaguw&feature=related
?????? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNU5pSEWFIg
The first sound Egyptian film. Awlaad 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
Mr. Deeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAWmOKzK2w4
Umm Kolthoum. Mirzahi. Film Salama 1945
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfpdlKALsQ
The Mummy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2X7ekWMkzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBpSALNPA6I