Audio/Visual Lending Library

The Center maintains a collection of videos and DVDS for free use by schools, groups, and individuals in Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley only. Films are mailed at no charge to schools too distant for personal pick-up. They can be borrowed for a maximum period of two weeks. Return postage and insurance are the responsibility of the borrower.

Because of the heavy demand for some films, please make requests at least a month in advance. For on-campus screenings, please make requests at least two weeks in advance.

To request a film, contact the Middle East Center

Videos should be returned to:

Middle East Center
Suite 130
3818-33 Chestnut Street
St. Leonard's Court
Philadelphia, PA 19104

TOPICAL LISTING

(Not all films appear in the topical listing. For a full alphabetical listing of the videos and their descriptions, click here.)

Afghanistan

Afghanistan - The Unconquered Spirit
Afghan Nomads: The Maldar
Afghan Village
Afghan Women
The Fundamental Question
Kandahar
Naim & Jabar
Osama
Painted Truck
The Stones of Eden
Wheat Cycle

Algeria

Bab El Oued City
The Battle of Algiers
Building a Nation
Inch'allah Dimanche
Omar Gatlato

Arabs

Arab and Jew
Arabs in America
Arabs Now, The
Arab Stereotypes, Part One
Arab Women at Work
Benaat Chicago
Brothers and Others
Century of Stereotypes: Depicting Arabs
Control Room
Driving an Arab Street
Family Ties
Heart to Heart
I Exist In My Own Skin
Introduction to the Arab World
Lost Boys of Sudan
The Making of the Arabs
The Mountain
New Knowledge for Old
Power of the Word
Shadow of the West
Tales of Arab Detroit
Young Voices from the Arab World

 

Arabic Language

Marhaba: Welcome to the World of Arabic: An Introduction to the Arabic Language and Civilization for Grades 4-8 (available on video)

Armenia

Vodka Lemon

Art, Music, and Dance

Al-Andalus
Art and the Islamic World
Art of the Book: Persian Miniatures from the Shahnameh
Cairo: 1001 Years of Art & Architecture
Circle within the Square
Dances of Egypt
Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul
Folk Music of Libya
Forces of Change: Artists in the Arab World
Geometry, Symmetry, Order: Islamic Patterns in Persian Tradition
Isfahan of Shah Abbas
Karagoz
Living with the Past
Master Musicians of Jajouka
Mideast: Arts, Crafts, and Architecture
Mirror of Kings: Tales from Kalila Wa Dimna
Musical Instruments of the Arab World
Naji al-Ali: An Artist with a Vision
Oveissi - Iranian Painter in the US
Painted Truck
Patterns of Beauty
Persian Music and Poetry
Rare Glimpses: Dances from the Middle East, Part 1
Rumi, The Wings of Love
Shadows of Turkey and the Witches
Suleyman The Magnificent
Tales from the Book of Kings: The Houghton Shahnameh
Turkish Traditional Crafts
Until Eternity ... Sinan
The Wedding

Bahrain

Bahrain - Gateway to the Gulf Bahrain National Museum
Bahrain: The Pearl of the Arabian Gulf Cities

Chad

Abouna

Cities

Between Two Worlds
Cairo: 1001 Years of Art & Architecture
Cairo: The City Victorious
Isfahan of Shah Abbas
Jerusalem, Gates to the City
Suleyman The Magnificent

Egypt

Adrift on the Nile
Alexandria ...Why?
Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa
Beggars and Noblemen
Cairo: The City Victorious
Celebrating the Prophet in the Remembrance of God: Sufi Dhikr in Egypt
The Closed Doors
Conquest of Darkness (Qahir al-Zalam)
Dreams of Hind and Camelia
Driving an Arab Street
Egyptian Peaks
Egyptian TV Footage
Four Women of Egypt
The Fundamental Question
Ambulance 55 (Is'af Khamsah wa-Khamsin)
Issues in Development: The Case of Egypt
Job (Ayyoub)
Lembi
Living with the Past
Mafia
A Man in Our House
Merchant of Art
Al-Motazawegoon
Naguib Mafouz
Nasser '56
Price of Change
Sayyadati al-Gamilah
Terrorism and Kebab
The Terrorist
For Those Who Sail to Heaven
Umm Kulthum - A Voice Like Egypt
Veiled Revolution
The Witness Who Saw Nothing (Shahid ma Shofsh Hagah)

Geography & Use of Resources

Aramco at Fifty
The Challenge
The Lover's Wind: An Iranian Tale
Man and Nature
Mideast: Arts, Crafts, and Architecture
Mideast: Economic Development
Mideast: Islam - The Unifying Force
Mideast: Land and People
Mideast: Pioneers of Science
Retracing History: The Sindbad Voyage
Rivers of Fire Wheat Cycle

History

Afghanistan - The Unconquered Spirit
Alexandria...Why?
Ancient and Modern - The Fall and Rise of the Middle East
Arab and Jew
Arabs in America
Crusades
Imperial Ottoman Empire
Islamic Science and Technology
Knowledge of the World
Lion of the Desert
The Message: The Story of Islam
Nasser 56
Orient/Occident
Ottoman Empire: 1280-1683
Saladin
Shadow of the West
Why We Fight

Iran

Apple
Art of the Book: Persian Miniatures from the Shahnameh
Baran
Bashu - The Little Stranger
Blackboards
Children of Heaven
The Circle
Color of Paradise
The Cow
Crimson Gold
The Cycle (Daireh-i Mina)
The Cyclist
The Day I Became A Woman
Deserted Station
Divorce Iranian Style
The Fifth Reaction
Gabbeh
Geometry, Symmetry, Order: Islamic Patterns in Persian Tradition
The Girl in the Sneakers
Grass
Hamoun
Hemlock
Holy Terror, Holy War
In This World
Iran's 2500th Anniversary Footage
Iran - Past, Present, and Future
Iron Island
Isfahan of Shah Abbas
Jews of Iran
The Key
The Legend of a Sigh
Leila
Life and Nothing More
The Lizard
The Lovers Wind: An Iranian Tale
Man and Nature
Marooned in Iraq
Maryam
The May Lady
The Mirror
A Moment of Innocence
Nargess
The Need
People of the Wind
Persian Music and Poetry
Persian News Footage, May 11
The Runner
Secret Ballot
Shahrbanoo
The Silence
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
Street Life in Tehran,
Three Shorts: Deadtime; The White Station; Tehran: the 25th Hour
Tales from the Book of Kings: The Houghton Shahnameh
Taste of Cherry
Taziyeh - An IntroductionTen
The Tenants (Ejareneshinha)
Turtles Can Fly
Two Women
Under the Moonlight
Under the Skin of the City
Where is the Friend's Home?
The White Balloon
The Wind Will Carry Us

Iraq

About Baghdad
The Dreams of Sparrows
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
The Ground Truth
Hijacking Catastrophe
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Iraq in Fragments
Iraqi Women
My country, My Country
Return to the Land of Wonders
Road to Hell: Kanan Makiya
Rush to War: Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Turtles Can Fly
Uncovered: The War on Iraq

Islam

American Muslim Teens Talk
Arabs, Muslims, and Islam
Dervishes: Lovers of God
Final Solution
Five Pillars of Islam
Inner Life
Islam Asia, and Modernity (6 vols.)
Islam: 600-1200
Islam: A Pictorial Essay
Islam: Empire of Faith
Islam in America
Islamic Science and Technology
Knowledge of the World
Living Islam, Vol. 1: Foundations
Living Islam, Vol. 2: The Challenge of the Past
Living Islam, Vol. 3: Struggling with Modernity
Living Islam, Vol. 4: Paradise at the Feet of the Mother
Living Islam, Vol. 5: Among the Non-Believers
Living Islam, Vol. 6: The Last Crusade
The Message: The Story of Islam
Mideast: Islam The Unifying Force
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
Muslims: An In-Depth Look at What It Means to Be A Muslim in the 21st CenturyOrient/Occident
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Rumi, The Wings of Love
Saints and Spirits
Sects and Violence: Fragmentation within Religions
The Story of Islam
Taziyeh: An Introduction
Unity
Ways of Faith
Women in Islam

Israel

500 Dunam on the Moon
Amazing Grace
Arab and Jew
Atalia: War Widow
Berlin Jerusalem
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
Broken Wings
Checkpoint
Close to home
CNN: The Oslo Accords
Devarim
Divine Intervention
Echoes of Conflict
The Flying Camel
Forget Baghdad
Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land
Hamsin
If You Make it Possible
The Inner Tour
The Intifada
Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone
Jerusalem - Gates to the City
Jerusalem Under Siege
Kadosh
Kedma
Kippur
Late Marriage
Late Summer Blues
The Milky Way
My Michael
The Mountain
Neve Shalom
Nightline in the Holy Land
Nina's Tragedies
Noah at 17
Or (My Treasure)
Paradise Now
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: US Media
and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Private
Promised Land
Raging Dove
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
Sallah
Sects and Violence: Fragmentation within Religions
Seeds of Peace
Shalom of Safed
The Shape of the Future
Siege
The Syrian Bride
Time of Favor
Ushpizin (Guests)
Walk on Water
Wall
The Wonder of Israel
The Wooden Gun
Yana's Friends
Yellow Asphalt
Yom Yom
Yossi & Jagger

Jordan

Family Ties
Samt

Judaism

About the Jews of Yemen: A Vanishing Culture
Camondo Han
Keepers of the Faith: Jews of Jerba
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
A Tree Cries For Rain
Turkey's Sephardim: 500 Years

Kuwait

The Arab Gulf States
New Knowledge for Old

Lebanon

The Druze
Lebanese Political Parties: The Amal Movement
Lebanese Political Parties: Hezbollah
Lebanese Political Parties: The Kataeb Party
Lebanese Political Parties: The Lebanese Forces
Lebanese Political Parties: The Progressive Socialist Party
Lebanese Political Parties: The Syrian Social National Party
The Making of the Arabs
The Maronites
Power of the Word
Sects and Violence: Fragmentation within Religions
Suspended Dreams
War Generation
West Beirut
Wild Flowers (Zahrat al-Kundoul)
Women Under Siege

Libya

Folk Music of Libya
Lion of the Desert

Literature & Drama

Conquest of Darkness (Qahir al-Zalam)
The Cycle (Daireh-i-Mina)
The Dupes
Folk Music of Libya
Karagoz
Mahmoud Darwich: As the Land is the Language
Merchant of Art
Mirror of Kings: Tales from Kalila Wa Dimna
My Michael
Naguib Mahfouz
On Orientalism
Power of the Word
Retracing History: The Sindbad Voyage
Rumi, The Wings of Love
Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said
Shadows of Turkey and The Witches
Taziyeh - An Introduction
Water, Wind and Dust (Ab, Bad, Khak)

Morocco

Ali Zaoua
Between Two Worlds
The Bride Market of Imilchil
A Door to the Sky
Letter from Morocco
Nomad and City
The Road to Love
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
Saints and Spirits
Studying Literacy in Morocco
Threads of Time
The Virgin Diaries

Nomads

Afghan Nomads: The Maldar
Afghan Village
Empty Quarter
Grass
Nomad and City

Pakistan

The Clay bird
Pakistan: Living with Geography
Moharram, Peshawar

Palestinians

500 Dunam on the Moon
Canticle of the Stone
Children of Fire
Chronicle of a Disappearance
CNN: The Oslo Accords
Divine Intervention
A Dream of Justice and Freedom
The Dupes
Fertile Memory
Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
If You Make it Possible
The Inner Tour
The Intifada
Journey to the Occupied Lands
The Milky Way
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe, 1948
The Intifada
Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone
Nightline in the Holy Land
Palestinian National Costume
Paradise Now
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: US Media
and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Private
Raging Dove
Rana's Wedding
Seeds of Peace
The Shape of the Future
Tale of the Three Jewels
Until When ...
Wall
We Are God's Soldiers
Women Under Siege

Religion

The Druze
The Maronites
Sects and Violence: Fragmentation within Religions

Saudi Arabia

Arabia: The Quest from the Past
Aramco at Fifty
The Challenge
Empty Quarter
Death of a Princess
Images of Saudi Arabia
Leader of the Nation
The Message: The Story of Islam
New Knowledge for Old
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Riyadh
Rumi, The Wings of Love
Saudi '84
Saudi Antiquities
Saudi Arabia '94
Saudi Arabia - A Child's Kingdom
Saudi Arabia - A Country in Motion
Saudi Arabia - Historical Highlights
Saudi Arabia - Political Perspective
Saudi Arabia - Religion and Values
Saudi Arabia - Women and the Family

Science & Technology

The Challenge
Islamic Science and Technology
Knowledge of the World
Mideast: Pioneers of Science

Somalia

The Letter: An American Town and "the Somali Invasion"

Spain

Al-Andalus
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

Sudan

Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa
Ways of Faith
Lost Boys of Sudan

Syria

Crusades
The Extras
Night of the Jackal
The Syrian Bride

Tunisia

Bent Familia
Halfaouine, Boy of the Terraces
Hyenas Under the Sun
Keepers of the Faith: Jews of Jerba
Man of Ashes
Satin Rouge
Silences of the Palace
Tunisian Wetlands

Turkey

Adliye
All Colors of the World
Atatürk
Camondo Han
Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul
Crusades
Dark Holiday
Dervishes: Lovers of God
Distant
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
Head-On
The Hero's Way
I Named Her Angel
Journey to the Sun
Karagoz
Rebetiko: The Song of Two Cities
Secularism: The Turkish Experience
Shadows of Turkey and the Witches
Suleyman the Magnificent
A Tree Cries For Rain
Turkey's Sephardim: 500 Years
Turkish Art and Cultures: A Workshop for Teachers
Turkish Classical Music
Turkish Traditional Crafts
Vasfiye is Her Name
Yol

Women

Adliye
Afghan Women
Arab Women at Work
Canticle of the Stone
Divorce Iranian Style
A Door to the Sky
Dreams of Hind and Camelia
Family Ties
Four Women of Egypt
The Hajj
In My Own Skin
Iranian Women
Living Islam, Vol. 3: Paradise at the Feet of the Mother
The Mountain
Nazreh: A Muslim Woman's Perspective
On Boys, Girls, and the Veil
Price of Change
Saints and Spirits
Saudi Arabia - Women and the Family
Shahrbanoo
Silences of the Palace
Vasfiye Is Her Name
Veiled Revolution
Women In Islam
Women of Islam: Veiling and Seclusion
Women Under Siege
Wild Flowers (Zahrat al-Kundoul)
Yol

Yemen

About the Jews of Yemen: A Vanishing Culture
English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman, The