Summary: 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
Asad, Muhammad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.1227 ASASummary: 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 LEGContents: Jaan pehechaan ho (Mohammed Rafi) -- Graduation rap (Vanilla, Jade and Ebony) -- Devil got my woman (Skip James) -- I must have it (Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks) -- Miranda (Lionel Belasco) -- Pickin' Cotton Blues (Blueshammer) -- Let's go riding (Mr. Freddie) -- Georgia on my mind (Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks)-- Las Palmas de Maracaibo (Lionel Belasco) -- Clarice (Vince Giordano and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2001
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WANSummary: At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances, a dysfunctional sonic collective faces power struggles, vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FLUHanif, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2008
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: What really caused a C120 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to tumble out of the sky on August 17, 1988? Was it mechanical failure? Could it possibly have been the result of human error? Was it perhaps the CIA brass taking a risky gambit? Some have said it had something to do with an old blind woman's curse, or the moral of that ancient proverb about star-crossed lovers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANMohammad, Akikur
Summary: "As compelling as it is informative and authoritative, The Anatomy of Addiction will lead you to a better understanding about the causes, prevention, and treatment of addiction. It explains in layman's terms what constitutes effective, evidence-based addiction medicine and how to find it. This book provides actionable, scientific information for addicts and their families and details how to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOHHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Following in her healer father's footsteps to become a junior nurse in a Karachi hospital, Alice taps inherent talents to bring relief to suffering patients but is hampered by a bureaucratic caste system, religious prejudice, and a dangerous police squad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMohammed, Rahaf
Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOHSabaaneh, Mohammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SABNasheed, Mohamed
Summary: President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives wages a campaign to stop global warming beacause a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge his country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISLSummary: "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 MENKaada
Contents: Smiger (4:37) -- Mainstreaming (4:39) -- From here on it got rough (3:20) -- Spindle (5:29) -- The mosquito and the abandoned old woman (3:57) -- Julia Pastrana (4:42) -- No man's land (5:00) -- Daily living (3:49) -- The small stuff (3:48) -- Celibate (7:20) -- Retirement community (5:12) -- Birds of prey (4:16) -- In hora mortis (3:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAAKaada.
Contents: Care -- Mainframe -- Black California -- Burden -- No you don't -- Go brown -- All wrong -- Honk -- I need you -- Thank you for giving me your valuable time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAASummary: 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 AHLEl 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 ELHAAi
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 HAAWald, Elijah.
Summary: Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll? Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT WALMohamed, Premee
Summary: "Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In this poignant account of a classmate's suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024