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1) For Sama
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Arabic
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The Frontline film is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
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Language
Arabic
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"The delighful novel about Kimya, the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi's home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi's tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, a strange man who was an unusual husband, almost totally absorbed by his longings for God." --
3) The idol
Language
Arabic
Description
A bother and sister called a place home and their playground where others consider it a place of conflict, destruction and despair.
Language
Arabic
Description
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male dominated Palestinian street car racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, this takes viewers on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought they could.
Language
Arabic
Description
Como muchas familias palestinas, los Amers viven rodeados por el infame muro en Cisjordania. Su vida cotidiana está dominada por puertas electrificadas, candados y la presencia constante de soldados. A través de una lente sensible, descubrimos el mundo privado de ocho miembros de la familia. En el transcurrir de sus días se revelan sus luchas constantes y los pequeños detalles de su vida: incluyendo árboles de olivo, dos burros pequeños y las...
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Arabic
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"Arwa al-Suhayli ruled Yemen for 40 years in the [Muslim] 5th century. She was the first queen of Islam and was popularly referred to as "the Noble Queen" and "the little Queen of Sheba." She is believed to have been independent, beautiful, highly intelligent, well educated, and talented in the womanly arts. Queen Arwa established schools and hospitals during her reign. This exciting biographical noivel sets the life of Queen Arwa against the backdrop...
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