The Arabs: A Living History

The first film in this important series introduces the viewer to the rich variety of life, opinion and history that exists in the region we call the A...

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...

This film looks at changing fortunes in the traditional relationship between Arab city and countryside. We focus on one small corner of Cairo and one...

The ancient Arabic language, transplanted, with the spread of Islam, from the Arabian Peninsula to Europe and the borders of China, remains the pivot...

900 years ago Arab Muslims were the world’s greatest seekers after knowledge and wisdom of the Greeks. Today that Arab scholarship is a natural part o...

Muslim author and poet Ali al Mek looks at the ways and meaning of the Islamic Faith as they affect one particular group of Muslims within his own exp...

This film assesses the changes which came about as the Arab countries were drawn into the new political and economic order of modern times. Those chan...

The last three films in “The Arabs” focus on the processes of post-Colonial change in the Arab world. Mahfoud Bannoune analyses the problems faced by...

Writer and journalist Nadia Hijab weaves this film around a large extended family of Jordanians living in Amman. The mother, Umm Ghassem, is clearly t...

What do the Arabs believe to be the most potent forces in their society at the present time and how do they assess their condition today? How possibl...