Arab cinema

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

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French Invasion of Egypt 1798

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Maps of Palestine

Required Readings

• Rebbecca Hillaur 2005. Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. pp. 27- 32. For Sept 23

• Interview with Naguib Mahfouz from The Paris Review, Summer 1992. For Oct 5. (24 pages)

• 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)

• The weapons of culture. by Joseph Massad. For Oct 19. (13 pages)

• Towards liberation. by Bashir Abu- Manneh. For Oct 19. (12 pages)

• Palestinian Cinema. For Oct 21. (35 pages)

• From reality to fiction. by Michel Khleifi. For Oct 26. (15 pages)

• Palestinian exilic cinema. by Hamid Naficy. For Oct 28. (15 pages)

• A brief history of cinema in Lebanon. For Nov 9. (18 pages)

• war and memory. For Nov 16. (18 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"

• 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

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.

Saladin 1

Saladin 2

Saladin 3

Saladin 4

Saladin 5

Saladin 6

Saladin 7

Saladin 8

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#

3- Narrating the Struggle for liberation

Palestine 1910-1940 rare pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LcFfqyZPd4&feature=related

Palestine before 1948

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLUMTvzUd00

Israel 1 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDM2wFeRPHg&NR=1

Israel 2 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT3946oreMw&feature=related

A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAzY1pZ_XY

Paradise Now - Exclusive Interview with Director Hany Abu-Assad

http://www.spike.com/video/paradise-now/2682055

Paradise Now 1 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkvj30aNiE&feature=related

2 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg66q9aX6wo&feature=related

3 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6QiaFtXtnE&feature=related

4 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s_aL1jrWWQ&feature=related

5 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0qosFwWhI&feature=related

6 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3KIRE-NP4&feature=related

7 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tv_h-1s0mw&feature=related

8 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD35MnIXfcI&feature=related

9 of 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhiHdk1M_A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDM2wFeRPHg&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLUMTvzUd00

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