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The Making of the Arabs

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

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The Arabs: A Living History

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Season 1 · Episode 9

Writer and journalist Nadia Hijab weaves this film around a large extended family of Jordanians living in Amman. The mother, Umm Ghassem, is clearly the powerful heart of this family strong and humorous and frank in her description of her life. In spite of its traditional restraints, the extended Arab family is seen to work as secure and loving and caring as it has always been. But we also meet other girls and women who feel that the traditional role of wife and mother is insufficient the Tunisian girl who longs to leave home and find her own flat, the modern Jordanian woman who flies a Tri-star and plays squash to keep fit. As she talks to Arab women and their families and to women active in medicine, politics, literature and the law, Nadia Hijab asks “How can we Arabs preserve the strengths of our family life and still give women a chance to lead their own lives?”

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The Arabs: A Living History

TV Series

197950m

Documentary

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Season 1 · Episode 9

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