Summary: 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 AHLKamali, Mohammad Hashim
Summary: "Shariah law is a subject that is misunderstood and misrepresented by many in the West. More than simply a system of law, it is concerned with a set of values and rules that are essential to the understanding and practice of Islam. In this volume, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, a world-renowned expert on Shariah, adopts a question-and-answer format to provide a clear introduction to its most salient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 340 KAMEl Bakkar, Mohammed.
Contents: Port Said -- Sauda sauda (Dark eyes) -- Bint il geran (Girl next door) -- Banat iskandaria (Girls of Alexandria) -- Al Jazayair (Dance of Algiers) -- Hela hope (Be careful of love) -- Haun meelee (Sway here) -- Balady (Native girl) -- Rahks Port Said (Dance of Port Said) -- Hygalo (They say I love her) -- Ah ya zain (Beautiful one).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Music Center 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING ELEl-Kurd, Mohammed
Summary: Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Al-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Chains (4:02) -- No one left to blame (4:22) -- Morning light (5:26) -- Can't keep going (6:19) -- My hands are tied (5:30) -- Free (3:47) -- So different now (5:07) -- Before too long (3:04) -- All these years (7:02) -- Big mama (4:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALSummary: "A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmmovment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MENAl-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Gone (3:45) -- What it means (5:23) -- Ophelia (4:38) -- How's it gonna be (6:07) -- Complete disgrace (4:56) -- Last time you'll see me cry (3:45) -- Gone (alternate take) (3:40) -- What it means (alternate take) (5:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALAl-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Breathe (5:45) -- Circle (4:20) -- Mystified (5:50) -- Misbehave (5:25) -- In time (3:23) -- Everything (3:37) -- Turn it around (4:41) -- If (4:36) -- Who turned out the lights? (5:43) -- Run to you (7:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Laith Al-Saadi 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALAl-Khatahtbeh, Amani
Summary: "At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States began their invasion in Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AL-KHATAHTBEH, AMANI ALKAli, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, MUHAMMAD ALISummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGAli, Muhammad
Summary: "During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. You saw only a part of me. After I retired from boxing my true work began. I have embarked on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding." So Muhammad Ali begins this spiritual memoir, his description of the values that have shaped and sustained him and that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, MUHAMMAD ALIMuhammad, Ali Shaheed.
Contents: Black beacon-- Maré (feat Ladybug Mecca)-- It's you (feat Raphael Saadiq)-- Questions (feat Ceelo Green)-- So amazing ( feat Luther Vandross)-- Gate 54-- Do it together (Feat Bilal)-- Redneph in B-minor-- Better endeavor-- Smiling for me (feat Karolina)-- Don't keep me waiting (feat Marsha Ambrosius)-- Bitches do voodoo (feat Angela Muñoz)-- Possibilities (feat Eryn Allen Kane)-- Mission-- Dans...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Linear Labs studios 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES YOUSaadawi, Nawal El.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAADAWI, NAWAL EL SAARees-Jones, Trevor
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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` REESummary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Muhammad, Ali Shaheed
Contents: Sabor del Ritmo (3:30 min) -- Altitude (3:29 min) -- White Buffalo (2:47 min) -- Trucha (4:37 min) -- The Gardens (6:02 min) -- 73 (4:37 min) -- El Cambio Es Necesario (4:52 min) -- Caló (6:14 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Is Dead 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "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 ADRAli, Rahaman
Summary: "More words have been written about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. He was, without doubt, the world's most-loved sportsman. At the height of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And yet, until now, the one voice missing belonged to the man who knew him best--his only sibling, and best friend, Rahaman Ali. No one was closer to Ali than Rahaman. Born Cassius and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, MUHAMMAD ALISummary: 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: "In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title--'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,' as a Kinshasa billboard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC WHESummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMMuhammad, Ali Shaheed
Contents: Ao redor do samba -- Sumaré -- Cat jump -- Fall afternoon -- Friendship samba -- Apocaliptico -- Pulando corda -- Quiet storm.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ AZYSummary: Ten of boxing's finest fighters tell what it was like to battle Muhammad Ali, the man many consider to be the best boxer ever. Ali's incomparable journey is recounted through the eyes of those who stepped through the ropes and into history. Join these respected fighters as they weigh in on 'The Greatest' and pay tribute to a living legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009