Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OUR

Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAN

Summary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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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 ADR

Summary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CON

Alai

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Murphy, Frank D.

Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FRANK D. MUR

Summary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. A film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYE

Summary: In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsping 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAN

Aliu, Akim

Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALI

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Thala.

Contents: You had 2 -- Curtain call -- Easy out -- Are you thinking of me? -- Sink -- In theory depression.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2023

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK THA

Dionne, E. J.

Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIO

Tagaq

Contents: Ajaaja -- Retribution -- Nacreous -- Aorta -- Centre -- Summoning -- Cold -- Sivulivinivut -- Sulfer -- Rape me.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN TAG

Talos.

Contents: Boy was I wrong -- The light upon us -- The light (interlude) -- To each his own -- See me -- The flood -- 2am -- On and on -- Let go -- Dawn, the front -- In the fold -- Far out dust.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2019

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Guttfreund, Amir

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUT

Husain, Amir

Summary: Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUS

Summary: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THR

Tsarfati, Amir

Summary: "The Mossad has uncovered Iran's plans to smuggle untraceable weapons of mass destruction into Israel. The clock is ticking, and agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux can't act quickly enough. Nir and Nicole find themselves caught in a whirlwind plot of assassinations, espionage, and undercover recon, fighting against the clock to stop this threat against the Middle East. As they draw closer to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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Blir.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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HAAi

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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