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Hai this is my new blog!!!!! I’m gonna delete the old one(Leila-Khaled) eventually

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Falling from Earth/و على الأرض السماﺀ (2007) -Lebanese film  Directed by Chadi Zeneddine.

#lebanon #lebanese cinema #falling from earth #chadi zeneddine

Falling from Earth/و على الأرض السماﺀ (2007) -Lebanese film Directed by Chadi Zeneddine.

#falling from earth #lebanon #lebanese cinema #chadi zeneddine

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#Syrian #syrian cinema #syrian film #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#syrian cinema #syrian film #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#Syrian #syrian cinema #syrian film #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#syrian cinema #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#Syrian #syrian film #syria #syrian cinema #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

Syrian film: رؤى حالمة / Dreamy Visions(2003), directed by Waha Al-Raheb

#Syrian #syria #Syrian film #Syrian cinema #waha alraheb #dreamy visions

(1974) اليازرلي -Syrian film

#اليازرلي #syria #syrian film #Hanna Mena #Syrian cinema #قيس الزبيدى

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It’s women’s history month and I wanna talk about the Arab women I love and look up to

1)Djamila Bouhired: leading Algerian heroine and revolutionary, she played an instrumental role in triggering the Battle of Algiers and endured severe torture. Djamila was cognizant of her revolutionary spirit since childhood, When all the Algerian students repeated every morning “France is our mother”, Bouhired would stand up and scream “Algeria is our mother!”

2)Layla Al Attar: was one of Iraq’s most respected and influential painters in the 1970s and 80s and a leading figure in Arab art. following installation of one of her provocative pieces; which was a huge mosaic portrait of George H. W. Bush on the floor of the main entrance of Al Rasheed Hotel, where senior Iraqi officials stayed and held their press conferences, with the phrase “Bush is Criminal“ written beneath it forcing everyone who steps into the hotel to walk over the portrait of bush she installed. Layla was murdered alongside her husband by a U.S Missile attack that targeted the house she resided in, her daughter was blinded in the attack.

3)Leila Khaled: “Splashed across the pages of newspapers, many marvelled at how Khaled was so elegantly attired as she boarded planes with her male companions, dressed as if heading out on holiday while concealing weapons under her clothing. I wonder about her willingness to undergo a reported six plastic surgeries, while still in her late 20s, to remain unidentifiable and continue hijacking planes for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She shrugs off talk of the surgery with a deep exhale of her ever-present cigarette. She calls it “a minor sacrifice. Now women are going to change their faces, their lips, and all these plastic surgeries that they do to beautify themselves, but they didn’t beautify their minds.” She continues, “I did that. Beautified my mind.“”

4)Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim: Sudanese writer, revolutionary, socialist leader and women’s rights activist. She was the first woman in Africa and the Arab speaking world to become a member of parliament. In 1952 she founded the Sudanese Women’s Union with other women and fought for women’s rights across Sudan.

5)Souha Bechara: Lebanese revolutionary who endured and survived 10 years of grueling torture following a failed attempt to assasinate General Antoine Lahad of the SLA, a Zionist backed fascist militia

(1975)Oreedo Hallan(I want a solution)/ أريد حلاً

Oreedo Halan is commonly regarded as one of the most prominent landmarks in the history of Egyptian cinema; one which led to a change in Egyptian marriage and divorce laws. Prior to this film, women were not allowed to divorce their husbands, and there was no loophole around it. After the popularity of Oreedo Halan, the laws were modified to allow more freedom. The film was the first to open channels for discussion about women’s rights in marriage and divorce and paint a realistically harrowing picture of the agony and helplessness of women in a system that deprives them of every last thread of power or agency to exit abusive and exploitative marriages. following the film, it became possible for egyptian women to file for “Khul,” a way to divorce their husbands against their will in court. needless to say, egyptian laws of marriage and divorce are still very far from protecting and platforming women, but this was a step in the right direction

#egypt #egyptian cinema #faten hamama #Said Marzouk #oreedo hallan #i want a solution #أريد حلاً

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Nadine Labaki in Caramel (2007)

drunk man’s theory on how to win the Six-Day War

The Time that Remains (2009)- dir. Elia Suleiman

#Elia Suleiman #the time that remains #palestine #palestinian cinema

If y'all would stop removing my captions that contain info about the films and directors, that'd be great

This isn't an "aesthetics" blog, this is literally a blog dedicated for MENA films that are relatively unknown outside MENA, the whole point is to introduce ppl to levantine cinema, so stop removing my captions thx