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Arab diaries. Episode 1, Birth / a Tamouz Media Production ; produced by Deborah Davies, Daoud Kuttab and Ilan Ziv ; filmmakers, Suheir Farraj, Abbas Hashim, Abeer Esber.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Palestine--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Children--Nutrition--Iraq.
- Children.
- Women--Syria--Social conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Children--Nutrition.
- Palestine--Social life and customs.
- Palestine.
- Iraq--Social life and customs.
- Iraq.
- Syria--Social life and customs.
- Syria.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Birth
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In Arabic with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- A five-part documentary series providing fresh insight into contemporary life across the Arab world. Part 1 presents three powerful stories: In Palestine Fatima is caught in a cycle of pregnancies because she fears if she does not produce a male child for her husband he will marry another woman. In Baghdad, Daoud is a sick baby born under the international sanctions against Iraq. In a Syrian village Roza, after may years of childless marriage, has learned that her husband has the fertility problem, not her, as she struggles with the traditional expectations of her society.
- Credits:
- Editor, Nahed Awwad ; music, Ross Lossing.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Tamouz Media Inc., ©2000; previously released in 2001.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- if-birth Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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