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Arab Identity: Who Are the Arabs?

• 1976 ----- color ----- 26 min ----- 16mm
• The immense human diversity of the Arab world is caught in this portrait of the Arab people. Traces the history of Islam and the creation of the modern Arab world. Focuses on Mecca, center of Islam, the force which binds together the diverse peoples. The fragile unity of the Arab world is strained, however, by forces of the twentieth century, from the poverty of Syria to the sophistication of Lebanon before the war.
• Topics: (History: Middle Eastern, Middle Eastern Studies, Religions: Islamic)

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