El-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.El 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 ELSummary: 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 AHLSummary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQUSummary: 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 TIMGury, Al.
Summary: "This guide explores one of the great traditions of Western painting: alla prima, or direct, painting. Bold brushwork and a painterly surface are the hallmarks of this renowned technique, and one of the great masters of alla prima was Arthur DeCosta, the legendary Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts teacher." "In Alla Prima, author Al Gury reveals the step-by-step lessons he learned in his years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751 Gury 2008Summary: 12-year-old Hany tries to fit in at his new governmental school after his father suddenly drops dead, leaving his mother in debt and unable to continue to afford his private education. Not only is Hany clearly from a more privileged background than the working class boys in his new class, but he is also the only Christian in a room full of Muslims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EXCSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGSummary: A Copenhagen police officer, Christian, seeks justice for his partner's murder by ISIS member Imran. In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, Christian and Alex, a fellow cop and his late partner's mistress, embark on a mission to hunt Imran down, but are unwittingly caught in a cat-and-mouse chase with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using Imran as a pawn to trap other ISIS members. Soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOMSummary: Lila, a gorgeous 16-year-old, becomes the object of affection of two gang leaders, Chimo and Mouloud, when she and her aunt move into the neighborhood. Soon sexual games turn into a love triangle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LILRees-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` 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,...
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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
Summary: Malotru has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA. He delivers highly classified information to his CIA contact, Dr. Balmes, during fake psychoanalysis sessions. In exchange for Malotru's cooperation, the CIA has guaranteed that they will rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned by Syrians in a secret location.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURHawkins, Coleman
Contents: Rainbow mist (2:55) -- Woody'n you (2:57) -- Bu dee daht (3:10) -- Disorder at the border (2:54) -- Yesterdays (2:53) -- Feeling zero (2:55) -- Salt peanuts (2:53) -- Uptown lullaby (3:17) -- Pick-up boys (2:59) -- Porgy (3:00) -- Concerto for tenor (3:13) -- Taps Miller (3:08) -- I can't get started (4:30) -- Sweet & lovely (3:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HAWSummary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ONEKronos Quartet
Contents: Placeless -- My ruthless companion -- My tresses in the wind -- I was dead -- Endless embrace -- Fate astray -- The sun rises -- Vanishing lines -- The might of love -- Far away glance -- Leyli's nightingales -- The color of moonlight -- Lover, go mad -- Eternal meadow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KROSummary: Ten-year-old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. Traumatized and orphaned, Gulistan and Firat try to care for their infant sister, but their money soon runs out and they re forced onto the street. It is there that Gulistan meets the part-time escort Dilara....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEFSummary: Explore the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees, and a chance at new beginnings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COLSummary: From the director of TAKEN and based on a true story. Three soldiers on their final patrol are ambushed by heavily armed militants in hostile territory. Trapped, wounded, and out of communication range, they are running out of options, ammunition, and time. Back at base, their commander receives word of the assault and must lead a daring rescue mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Hanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Hanif will have readers wondering what really caused a C130 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to crash on August 17, 1988.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANContents: Daffy Duck's rhapsody (Mel Blanc) -- Yoda ("Weird Al" Yankovic) -- The elements (Tom Lehrer) -- Deteriorata (National Lampoon) -- Charlie Brown (the Coasters) -- Dungeons and dragons (the Dead Alewives) -- Eskimo (Corky & the Juice Pigs) -- The ballad of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy) -- Kill the wabbit (Ozzy Fudd) -- Stress (Jim's Big Ego) -- On the shoulders of freaks (Henry Phillips) -- Bars...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Killer Mike
Contents: Down by law / (ft. CeeLo Green) -- Shed tears / (ft. Mozzy & Lena Byrd Miles) -- RUN / (ft. Young Thug) -- N rich / (ft. 6lack & Eryn Allen Kane) -- Talkin dat shit! -- Slummer / (ft. Jagged Edge) -- Scientists & engineers / (ft. André 3000, Future & Eryn Allen Kane) -- Two days / (ft. Ty Dolla $ign) -- Spaceship views / (ft. Curren$y, 2 Chainz & Kaash Paige) -- Exit 9 / (ft. Blxst) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KILSummary: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008