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The Making of the Arabs

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Between Two Worlds

The City Victorious?

The Power of the Word

New Knowledge for Old

Ways of Faith

The Shadow of the West

Building a Nation

Family Ties

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Arabs Now

The Arabs: A Living History

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197950m

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Between Two Worlds

Season 1 · Episode 2

What was Arab society like during the thousand year period following the decline of the Arab Empire? What memories, what feelings, does it provoke in the minds of today’s Arabs, caught as they are in the turbulence of 20th Century change? Abdelmalek Tazi is a member of an influential family of Fez, ancient seat of the rulers of Morocco. As Abelmalek plays with his children, looks for business contacts in the Arabian Gulf states, prays at his father’s tomb, or revisits his childhood haunts in the medieval quarter of Fez, our writer, Abdallah Hammoudi, questions how deeply the manners, beliefs, attitudes and values of the old Arab world penetrate the lives of modern Arabs. As he says: “Is it really possible to be an Arab in that traditional world and in the world of tomorrow?”

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The Arabs: A Living History

TV Series

197950m

Documentary

Now playing

Between Two Worlds

Season 1 · Episode 2

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