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Arab Cinema

A list of good Arab-language films worth watching, and hopefully giving some window into Arab/Middle-Eastern culture and history.

Links to my articles on some of the films in notes.

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  • Cairo Station
  • Alexandria… Why?
  • Alexandria Again and Forever
  • The Sparrow
  • The Land
  • The Night of Counting the Years
  • Caramel
  • Paradise Now
  • Omar
  • West Beirut
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • Wadjda
  • Everyday Life in a Syrian Village
  • Beirut: The Encounter
  • An Egyptian Story
  • Baba Amin
  • Foreman Hassan
  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
  • The Head
  • Rayya and Sekina
  • Return of the Prodigal Son
  • The Sin
  • Son of the Nile
  • The Blazing Sun
  • Lak Yom Ya Zalem
  • Theeb
  • The Nightingale's Prayer
  • A Man in Our House
  • The Cheetah
  • The Cruel Sea
  • Silvered Water
  • The Eloquent Peasant
  • The Dove's Lost Necklace
  • The Dupes
  • A Flood in Baath Country
  • A Thousand Months
  • Capernaum
  • Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
  • Dreams of the City
  • Omar Gatlato
  • A Summer in La Goulette
  • The Silences of the Palace
  • Wedding in Galilee
  • Divine Intervention
  • Dawn of a New Day
  • Saladin
  • Kafr Kassem
  • When I Saw You
  • The Night
  • Stars in Broad Daylight
  • Leila and the Wolves