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Tales from Arab Detroit
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- Summary
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"When an Arab American community center brings an Egyptian poet to perform a 1000-year-old epic, sparks fly. The result is a familiar American tale: parents trying to pass on cherished traditions a...
"When an Arab American community center brings an Egyptian poet to perform a 1000-year-old epic, sparks fly. The result is a familiar American tale: parents trying to pass on cherished traditions and language, while their children are at home in a world of McDonald's and MTV"--Container.
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- Creator
- ACCESS and Olive Branch Productions ; written and directed by Joan Mandell ; produced by Sally Howell, Joan Mandell
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, Arabic
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Los Angeles, CA : Olive Branch Productions, [1995]
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in
- OCLC
- ocm33991038
- Credits
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- Narrator: Bushra Karaman
- Camera, Rich Wieske ; editors, Carolyn Rouse, Erika Surat Andersen, Joan Mandell ; narrator, Bushra Karaman ; original music, Marty Jabara ; associate producer, Andrew Shryrock
- Documentary.
- VHS, stereo.
- Dialogue in English, and Arabic with English subtitles.
Subjects
- Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity.
- Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions.
- Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social life and customs.
- Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Music.
- Storytelling -- Michigan -- Detroit.
- Songs, Arabic.
- Epic poetry, Arabic -- Egypt.
- Music -- Arab countries.
- Music -- Michigan -- Detroit.
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions.