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    Lady of the palace Sayedat al-kasr
    Sayedat al-kasr | Sayidat el kasr | Dame du palais
    "Lady of the Palace traces the history of Mount Lebanon's Jumblat family from the 19th century to the present, focusing on earlyy-twentieth century leader and politician Nazira Jumblat."--Container.
    • Contributor: Misr International Films - Khoury, Marianne - Habchi, Samir - Balsan, Humbert - Khoury, Gabriel - Arab Film Distribution - Ghanem, Georges
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Under the rubble : a film by Jean Chamoun & Mai Masri.
    Sous les decombres
    Documentary of the sufferings of the Lebanese and Palestinians of South Lebanon and West Beirut under Israeli army shelling, a protest against modern warfare as well as against the Israelis. "To forget why ... children, ...women, and .. men ... met their deaths in West Beirut is to kill them all over again.".
    • Contributor: Chamoun, Jean Khalil - Masri, Mai
    • Date: 1983
  • Film, Video
    The kingdom of women Ein El Hilweh "The story of the women of Ein El Hilweh refugee camp between 1982 and 1984 is an important chapter in the history of Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the camp was destroyed and its men were imprisoned. 'The Kingdom of Women' documents the organizing spirit of the community's women during this period - detailing how they...
    • Contributor: Arab Film Distribution - Abourahme, Dahna
    • Date: 2010-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Lady of the palace Sayedat al-kasr
    Sayedat al-kasr | Sayidat el kasr | Dame du palais
    "Lady of the Palace traces the history of Mount Lebanon's Jumblat family from the 19th century to the present, focusing on earlyy-twentieth century leader and politician Nazira Jumblat."--Container.
    • Contributor: Misr International Films - Khoury, Marianne - Habchi, Samir - Balsan, Humbert - Khoury, Gabriel - Arab Film Distribution - Ghanem, Georges
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Letters from Beirut : the War of 33
    War of 33 : | 33-day war : | Thirty-three-day war :
    "The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman--a mother living through the war in Beirut--carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with--the refugees, the wounded,...
    • Contributor: Salman, Hanady - Pm Press - Soohen, Jacqueline - Rowley, Richard - Big Noise Films
    • Date: 2008-01-01
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    Ṭayf al-madīnah = L'omrbe de la ville
    Omrbe de la ville | In the shadows of the city
    A story of young boy from south Lebanon who is forced to leave his home village, and gets caught up in Lebanon's civil war.
    • Contributor: Choueiri, Christine - Nour Productions - Machmouchi, Majdi - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Chamoun, Jean Khalil - Ciné-Sud Promotion (Firm) - Arab Film Distribution - Chalak, Ammar
    • Date: 2004
  • Film, Video
    Arḍ al-nisāʼ Women beyond borders
    Women beyond borders | Beyond borders | Ard al-nissa'a
    "Women beyond borders is volume eight in the Women pioneers collection, a film series exploring the impact that a number of remarkable women have made on the Arab world in a variety of fields throughout the early part of the twentieth century ... looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland....
    • Contributor: Misr International Films - Khalīl, Samīḥah Salāmah - Balsan, Humbert - Khoury, Marianne - Khoury, Gabriel - Chamoun, Jean Khalil - Arab Film Distribution - ʻafīfī, Kifāḥ
    • Date: 2003
  • Film, Video
    Wild flowers women of south Lebanon
    Arab Film Distribution presents
    This award winning documentary focuses on the women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon.
    • Contributor: Arab Film Distribution - Chamoun, Jean Khalil - Masri, Mai
    • Date: 2012-01-01
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    Ṭawāʼif Lubnān. al-Arman al-Kāthūlīk
    Arman al-Kāthūlīk | Denominations of Lebanon
    Explores the history and philosophy of the Armenian Catholic Church in Lebanon, who believe in the Catholic teachings and united with the Roman Catholic Church.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Akthar min raʼy. al-Insiḥāb al-Isrāʼīlī min al-Janūb al-Lubnānī
    Insiḥāb al-Isrāʼīlī min al-Janūb al-Lubnānī | More than one opinion
    A weekly program in which guests debate the most newsworthy issue of the week. Discussed in this episode: Arab-Israeli conflict; Lebanon; Israeli withdrawal.
    • Contributor: Nuʻmān, ʻiṣām - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥaddād, Sāmī - Al Jazeera (Television Network)
    • Date: 2000
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    Ṭawāʼif Lubnān. al-Arman al-Urthūdhuks
    Arman al-Urthūdhuks | Denominations of Lebanon
    Explores the history and beliefs of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Lebanon, which dates from the beginning of the fourth century, 301 AD, when Christianity was officially accepted by the Armenians as the state religion.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Al-sharif bi-khayr All is well on the border front
    All is well on the border front
    Issues of representation within the occupied zone of South Lebanon are explored in this film. Three staged interviews with Lebanese prisoners in Israel illustrate aspects of life under occupation. The interview format is a tribute to Jean-Luc Godard's Here and elsewhere, which dealt with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict 20 years earlier.
    • Contributor: Arab Film Distribution - Zaʻatarī, Akram
    • Date: 2008
  • Film, Video
    Je veux voir I want to see
    I want to see
    "While visiting Beirut to attend a glamorous gala, iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve insists :Je veux voir" ("I want to see"), referring to the carnage wrought against innocent Lebanese civilians during Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006. "I feel it's impossible to stay on the fringe," she adds, and she means it. Filmmakers Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas know first-hand the...
    • Contributor: Hirsch, Julien - Typecast Films (Firm) - Deneuve, Catherine - Abbout Productions - Curmi, Brigitte - Joreige, Khalil - Mille Et Une Productions - Mroué, Rabih - Hadjithomas, Joana
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Veiled voices "Women across the Middle East are trying to reclaim their role as leaders in Islam. Veiled voices goes in-depth into the world of three Muslim women religious leaders, who say women were always meant to be powerful within the religion. Filmed over the course of two years in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt"--Container.
    • Contributor: Hassaine, Sarah - Typecast Films (Firm) - Tiny Leaps Productions (Firm) - Oehlers, Paul A. - Maher, Brigid - American University (Washington, D.C.). School of Communication - Bauer, Karen
    • Date: 2010
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    Frontiers of dreams and fears & Children of Shatila Frontiers of Dreams and Fears: Traces the delicate friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls. Children of Shatila: Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. 50 years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila share their dreams of a better future.
    • Contributor: Arab Film Distribution - Masri, Mai
    • Date: 2009-01-01
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    Fields of fire In South Lebanon as many as one million unexploded cluster bombs litter the countryside following the recent war with Israel. More than a hundred people have been killed or injured by these munitions since the war ended, and farmers are in danger of losing their livelihoods out of fear of entering contaminated fields.
    • Contributor: Zulfiqar, Salma - Gough, David - Integrated Regional Information Networks - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2006
  • Film, Video
    Ḥaṭufim
    Prisoners of war | Kidnapped | Homeland
    Tells the story of three Israeli Defence Force reservists who are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon. Their fate is unknown until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return to their homeland - two of them alive, the third in a coffin. The story of the three men's time in captivity unfolds as they attempt to reintegrate into society; trying to cope with the...
    • Contributor: Avital, Mili - Ezroni, Adi - Herzliya Studios - Tender Productions - Keshet Broadcasting - Tolledano, Yoram - Abecassis, Yael - Cohen, Assi - Nmc United Entertainment (Firm) - Golan, Ishai - Raff, Gideon - Benʼasuli, Liʼat - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2012
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    The dead weight of a quarrel hangs a three part project Investigates the possibilities and limits of writing a history of the Lebanese wars (1975-1991), documenting not what happened but what can be imagined, what can be said, what can be taken for granted, what can appear as rational, sayable, and thinkable about the wars. Raad incorporates slides, notebook pages, and videotape excerpts as historical artifacts attributed to imaginary sources.
    • Contributor: Raad, Walid - Lupi, Inc - Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank
    • Date: 2004