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INDIAN CULTURE
MIDDLE EAST
A local Hindu deity was
Mumbai-Ai; it was from that name that the better-known name of Bombay derives.
Set on 7 swampy islands, its unwilling possession was passed by the Portuguese
to the Charles II of England as a dubious dowry; his government passed ownership
to the East India Company.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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Ghanereo is set in the greenbelt of central Rajasthan, its
multi-hued market the setting for a wedding ceremony lasting several days.
In Jaisalmer fine buildings are decorated with the most intricate of carvings
and balladeers perform in the streets. Sacred Pushkar is surrounded by deserts
and mountains, attracting millions on holy pilgrimage.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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The annual monsoons that
refresh the fields are felt to be the gift of the gods; 90% of India's festivals
are at harvest time. Diwali is the 5-day "festival of lights", occurring
in October and November. Based on the lunar cycle, Diwali lights up moonless
nights with fireworks to symbolize the triumph of good over evil.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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A small, fertile area set between mountains and sea, Kerala
is home to 32 million people. Colonized by Portuguese, Dutch, and English,
its people practice Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Kochi is
now known as the "Queen of the Arabian Sea", as a center of trade for spices
and nuts.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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One of the world's oldest
spice markets, Delhi has been rebuilt by Parthians, Moguls, and British.
The Muslim capital for more than 200 years, its red sandstone mosque is
a center for India's 120 million Muslims; the Hindi temples pay homage to
a pantheon of 330 million gods.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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More than fifty types of spices grow in the Western Ghats,
the "spice bowl of India". It is also the most important watershed for the
subcontinent and a unique ecological preserve. The Malabar Coast supports
black pepper and cardamom plantations; there are daily spice auctions where
buyers and sellers converge in a spirited display of commerce.
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23 minutes |
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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Jodhpur is the second
largest city of Rajasthan, its red fort and blue washed houses described
by Kipling as "...the creation of angels, fairies, and spirits." A Bishnoi
village derives from once-native Buddhism; nothing alive may be eaten or
used.
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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Depending
on your point of view Syria is either a rogue state run by an authoritarian
regime - or a champion of the Arab cause. But what's not in dispute is
that the war in neighboring Lebanon has drastically altered the balance
of power in this region and radicalized opinion in Syria. One of Syria's
leading Sunni clerics Sheikh Mohammed Habbash told reporter Mark Corcoran
that his people are now calling for the creation of a Syrian Hezbollah-style
militia to retake the Golan Heights - Syrian territory occupied by Israel
since the 1967 war. "The government now may forbid any attack in Golan Heights
but I can tell you honestly government and our leadership cannot stay forever
in control of everyone." Sheikh Mohammed Habbash says. Everywhere in Damascus
there are portraits of Hafaz and Bashar al Assad the father-son dynasty that's
ruled this country with an iron fist for more than 35 years. But now their
official portraits have been joined - even upstaged - by posters of a bearded
Lebanese cleric: Hassan Nasrallah - leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, self proclaimed
victor of a month long war that shattered the myth of Israel's invincibility.
The yellow flags of Hezbollah fly everywhere. A victory for Nasrallah, has
been greeted as a victory for all Syria -which along with Iran provided
him with arms, money and advisers.Now, former Presidential adviser turned
regime critic Ayman Abdel Nour - fears the growing power of Islamic extremists
who are attempting to exploit the mood. "I assure you something, now the
biggest danger for the regime in the eyes of the top regime people, is radical
Islam"
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Sr. High-College |
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2007 |
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HAMAS VICTORY investigates the appeal
of an officially terrorist organization both in the isolated, more traditionally
Islamic oriented Gaza Strip, and in the secularized West Bank. The earlier
Palestinian popular support of Yassir Arafat's "Fatah" movement has declined
as its corruption and scandals punctuated the failure to achieve peace and
prosperity, much less totally expel the Israelis--portrayed as alien and
brutal occupiers. Beginning with its (ironically) Israeli supported development
by the Muslim Brotherhood imported decades ago from Egypt and climaxing in
its unanticipated sweep of democratic elections, this emerging force was
born of a deep and furious hatred of Israel and its Western supporters. Can
the West hope that it will become more pragmatic and recognize the need to
negotiate with Israel? HAMAS hints at the answers in the words of those who
supported it.
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22 minutes |
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Senior High, College |
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2006 |
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The
story of the fate of Palestinian refugees living under the auspices of
UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency). While the Arab armies
were preparing to invade the newborn state of Israel in 1948 a few hundred
thousand Arabs from Palestine were getting ready to flee their homes - some
convinced that they would return quickly as winners and conquerors: others
fled from fear of the Israelis. They filled up the refugee camps hastily
constructed on their Arab brothers' land. Because most of the neighboring
Arab countries refused permission for these refugees to settle permanently,
the refugee heritage of those first occupants has been passed on to their
children and grandchildren. The program sets out to tell the story of those
men, women and children, who have been used as pawns for over 60 years,
by Arab leaders at first, by Palestinian leaders later on and until this
very day by UNWRA that was specially created to supposedly take care of
them. Their plight is supposedly well known but in fact little is known
about the fate of these refugees.
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50 minutes |
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Senior High, College |
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2005 |
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Jews had been living in Arab lands for
thousands of years.There were approximately a million Jews living in Arab
countries between 1946 and 1974 who had accepted their fate in good times
and bad times, enduring pogroms and persecutions for hundreds of years.
Some Jews even considered their survival a miracle; many were expelled from
the Arab world. But for others 1948 marked the beginning of their exodus
with the birth of the state of Israel.These Jews did not get special status.
They came from Aden, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Algeria,
Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. Though they had lost everything and sometimes
even relatives, memories and cemeteries, it was in Israel and the West that
they were able to rebuild their lives. They asked for no compensation, nor
any right to return, nor even wished that their story be told. Theirs was
a Silent Exodus.
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54 minutes |
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Senior High, College |
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2005 |
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At
the crossroads where architecture, urbanism, economics and sociology meet,
this film profiles some of the most well known skyscrapers in the world
and provides commentaries and analysis from their engineers and some of
the world's greatest contemporary architects such as Norman Fisher, Jean
Nouvel, Christina de Partzamparc and Paul Andreu. Creating the tallest structure
is the culmination of an ancient dream, from the mythical tower of Babel
to the Eiffel Tower. For over two centuries, these skyscrapers have defined
the cityscapes of New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and other great cities.
Today in Asia, towers are now shattering previous height records. A building
nearly a mile high is being planned in Malaysia. Far from going out of fashion,
this architectural challenge has become essential in the planning of contemporary
urban landscapes; especially in cities where land is extremely scarce. Towers
all over the world symbolize economic growth and success. In Paris or New
York, towers crowd the business districts. In Dubai and Shanghai these concrete
and steel giants have radically transformed their cityscapes. Everywhere,
architects rival each other in originality, and all have their special place
in the field of modern architecture.
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TT00160950 |
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45 minutes |
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Intermediate-College |
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2007 |
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