Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASHAAi
Contents: Channels -- Pigeon barron -- Bodies of water -- Human sound (with Kai-Isaiah Jamal & Obi Franky) -- Louder always better -- Biggest mood ever (with Alexis Taylor) -- AM -- FM -- I've been thinking a lot lately -- Purple jelly disc (with Obi Franky) -- Baby we're ascending (with Jon Hopkins) -- Orca -- Tardigrade.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAAFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: In the Interest of the Nation - Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. But Not if It Concerns Your Daughter - Carl Hamilton's family was wiped out in a revenge attack years ago. Now, those painful memories resurface as Hamilton's seven-year-old goddaughter is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AGESummary: A wife in Iran who cannot have children is pressured by her in-laws into persuading her husband to take another wife so that he may have sons. A portrayal of the clash between tradition and modern marriage in Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEISummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: Presents the true stories of three Iraqi people who endured life in a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad during the Iraq War and then were in the streets after their hospital is decimated. The film was shot in Baghdad in 2004. The Iraqi filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot by insurgents, the 14-year old boom boy was shot in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AHLFania All Stars
Contents: Ella fue (She was the one) (3:42) -- Coro miyare (6:07) -- Picadillo (5:33) -- Juan Pachanga (6:13) -- Donde (4:50) -- Foofer soofer (3:56) -- Isadora (6:51) -- Fania All-Stars' cha cha cha (4:18) -- Los Bravos (5:26) -- Qué pasa? (5:58) -- Prepara (9:43) -- Peanuts (The peanut vendor) (4:57) -- Sin tu cariño (6:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN FANSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLESummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURFaqir, Fadia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAQRees-Jones, Trevor
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REES-JONES, TREVOR REECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085` REEFerkat Al Ard
Contents: Matar Al Sabah (4:25 min) -- Entazerni(4:16 min) -- Oghneya (6:33 min) -- Edfeno Amwatakom Wanhadou (3:12 min) -- Matar Naem (4:44 min) -- Lahnon Lemra'ati Wa Beladi (5:16 min) -- Juma'a 6 Hziran (4:48 min).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST FERWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarSummary: The story of a Paul Pena, a blind American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GENFacs
Contents: Constellation (4:42 min) -- When You Say (5:38 min) -- Slogan (4:13 min) -- Class Spectre (4:17 min) -- Still Life (8:24 min) -- New Flag (10:49 min).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FACHajali, Issam.
Contents: Ana Damir El Motakallim (11:42 min) -- Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard (3:27 min) -- Khobs (3:31 min) -- Lam Azal (3:36 min) -- Ada (4:58 min) -- Yawma Konna (4:34 min) -- Intazirne (3:13 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST HAJFadl, Mahmoud.
Contents: The Drummers of the Nile. Maqsoum (2:38) ; Darig Masri (2:10) ; Hagala (2:06) ; Falahi (2:08) -- Nagrashad. Halawa Ya (2:54) -- South Nubian & Sudanese Rhythms. Mardoum (2:03) ; Saira (1:41) ; Shaygiya (1:57) ; Dishka (2:13) ; Karachi (1:56) ; Wahda (2:02) -- A night on Mohamed Ali street. Aament Bellah (12:03) -- Traditional Nubian Rythms. Koumbakash (1:40) ; Kiechade (1:55) ; Kaff (Ollin...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Piranha 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST FADSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019