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Permissible dreams / Faust Film, München and Abnoud Film, Cairo.
LIBRA VHS HQ1793 .P47 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- As women see it
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class women--Egypt.
- Working class women.
- Women--Egypt--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Egypt.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Egypt.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (32 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies [distributor], [1983]
- Language Note:
- Arabic with English-language voice-over.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- mono
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- An examination of the lives of Arab women through the life of Om Said, a traditional Egyptian woman who is typical of thousands of women living in rural villages throughout Egypt. She married at fifteen, has eight children, and does not read or write--yet she is the economist, the doctor, the planner of her family's future.
- Credits:
- Director & editor, Atiat El-Abnoudi.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 63593220
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