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1) For Sama
Language
Arabic
Description
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.
Language
Arabic
Description
"From the acclaimed filmmaker Feras Fayyad ('Last Men in Aleppo') comes the powerful film The Cave, Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, and a stirring portrait of courage, resilience and female solidarity. For besieged civilians in wartorn Syria, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed...
Language
Arabic
Description
"Follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization comprised of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards explosions in the hope of saving lives ... the documentary draws us into the lives of three of its founders - Khaled, Subhi, and Mahmoud - as they grapple with the chaos around them and struggle with an ever-present dilemma: do they flee with their families or stay and fight for their country"--Container....
4) In Syria
Series
Language
Arabic
Description
"A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale."--from Imbd.com.
Language
Arabic
Description
Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
6) Daresalam
Language
Arabic
Description
In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men.
Language
Arabic
Description
A powerful documentary titled for the nickname given to Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar, named so for his initiative of facing down violent government security forces with flowers and bottles of water. Matar was a key organizer of peaceful protests in his hometown of Daraya against one of the most vicious regimes in the 21st century. His brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the...
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
After ruling the territory of Al-Andalus (now modern-day Spain and Portugal) for hundreds of years, the Moors' reign came to an end with the 1492 fall of Granada. According to Bahjatt's alternative history, the Moors fled Al-Andalus and came upon the warring tribes of Yaqteenya, whom they joined under the unifying flag of Islam. Claiming to be the last surviving Muslims, the Moors made a deal: they would help build Yaqteenya into a great civilization...
14) al-naṣṣāb
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
In this novel complementary to the novel " Shelter " (2005), Mazen is trying to search for a quorum in Beirut, the time of the Lebanese civil war, discovers new dimensions to the concepts of theft, love and responsibility.
16) Yūlīyūs Qayṣar
Author
Series
Language
Arabic
Description
Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about political intrigue, personal betrayal, and the aftermath of a brutal assassination.
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