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"Cinema is a tool for change not a tool for instilling backwardness and titillating the emotions of the audience before sleep with all the wishes of happy dreams." Tawfik Saleh

El SAYED EL BOLTI (el Sayyed el Bolti)
Tawfik Saleh, Egypt, 1967, 123 mins (Arabic with English Subtitles)

Adapted from Saleh Morsi's novel “The Alley of Sayed el Bolti” (The Alley of Mr. or Master Bolti) this film deals with the struggle of poor fishermen against a monopolist tycoon in Alexandria. Saleh often had a hard time w... Read more

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Sundays: 2:00pm-3:30pm
Semester: March 16-May 11, 2014 (No Class on March 23)

4 & 8 Session Packages Available for Group Instruction
Private Instruction Available

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IRAQI MAQAM: REPERTOIRE & VARIATION

The Iraqi Maqam is one of the oldest models of maqam practice and one of the most refined of the many maqam traditions found throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this class, students will learn to si... Read more

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A TALE OF TWO SYRIAS by Yasmin Fedda
2012, 64 mins, UK /Syria
(Arabic and English dialogue with English Subtitles)

DIRECTOR AND ACTOR SALEM Al-SHIMMIRI IN ATTENDANCE

Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrus lives a remote existence in a hillside monastery. This consistently insightful and unexpected documentary offers a unique perspective on what the dream of freedom means to two very different people in the face of a brutal regime, creating a vital snapshot of life in the year before Syria’s uprising.

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