Middle East & Islamic Studies Resources

Finding Films

Duke's Lilly Library houses a substantial number of films on VHS cassettes, DVD, and other media from and about countries of the Middle East. The collection includes both feature and documentary films. Many of the works in this collection are in regional languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew). An easy way to find films is through the Library's online catalog. Perform a 'Subject begins with...' search on 'feature films [country name]' or 'documentary films [country name]' to find most films from a particular country. Click on one of the following links:

Selected Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Monographs on ME Film

Abdel-Malek, Kamal.

The rhetoric of violence : Arab-Jewish encounters in contemporary Palestinian literature and film.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Perkins/Bostock PJ7519.J4 A233 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Armes, Roy.

Postcolonial images : studies in North African film / Roy Armes.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.A35 A76 2005 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: Beginnings in the 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- Into the present -- An indigenous film culture: El chergui (1975) -- History as myth: Chronicle of the years of embers (1975) -- A fragile masculinity: Omar Gatlato (1976) -- Memory is a woman’s voice: La nouba (1978) -- Imag(in)ing Europe: Miss Mona (1987) -- Defeat as destiny: Golden horseshoes (1989) -- Sexuality and gendered space: Halfaouine (1990) -- A timeless world: Looking for my wife’s husband (1993) -- A new future begins: Silences of the palace (1994) -- A new realism? Ali Zaoua (1999).

Armes, Roy.

Third World film making and the West.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.D44 A76 1987 Check availability @ Duke

ابو شادي، علي. Abou Shadi, Aly.

اتجاهات السينما المصرية / Ittijāhāt al-sīnimā al-Miṣrīyah
القاهرة : دار الاحمدي للنشر، 1998. Edition: الطبعة 1.
al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Aḥmadī lil-Nashr, 1998
Perkins/Bostock PN1993.5.E3 A2219 1998 Check availability @ Duke

أبو شادي، علي. Abou Shadi, Aly.

السينما والسياسة / al-Sīnimā wa-al-siyāsah /
القاهرة : دار شرقيات للنشر والتوزيع، 1998.
al-Qāhirah : Dār Sharqīyat lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 1998
سلسلة كتاب شرقيات للجميع ؛ 52 Silsilat Kitāb Sharqīyāt lil-jamīʻ ;; 52;
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.E3A235 1998 Check availability @ Duke

Chaudhuri, Shohini

Contemporary world cinema : Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005
Lilly Library PN1994 .C34348 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Dabashi, Hamid.

Dreams of a nation: on Palestinian cinema; preface by Edward Said.
London ; New York : Verso, 2006.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.P35 D74 2006
Perkins/Bostock PN1993.5.P35 D74 2006 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: "For cultural purposes only" : curating a Palestinian film festival / Annemarie Jacir -- The weapon of culture : cinema in the Palestinian liberation struggle / Joseph Massad -- From reality to fiction : from poverty to expression / Michel Khleifi -- Towards liberation : Michel Khleifi's Ma'loul and Canticle / Bashir Abu-Manneh -- The cinema of displacment : gender, nation, and diaspora / Ella Shohat -- Palestinian exilic cinema and film letters / Hamid Naficy -- A letter from the rest of the world or "The Afghan Arabs" / Nizar Hassan -- The challenges of Palestinian filmmaking (1990-2003) / In praise of frivolity : on the cinema of Elia Suleiman / Hamid Dabashi.

Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.

Women, Islam and cinema.
London : Reaktion Books, 2004.
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1995.9.W6 D648 2004 Check availability @ Duke
Brief description -- Table of Contents -- Author Info

Downing, John. (ed.)

Film & politics in the Third World.
New York, NY : Praeger, c1987.
Lilly Library 791.4309172 F487, 1987 Check availability @ Duke

Ḥusayn, Yusrī.
‫ حسين، يسري. ‬

Sīnimā al-ḥubb wa-al-ghaḍab : aflām al-tammarud wa-al-thawrah wa-qiṣaṣ al-ḥubb wa-al-rūmānsīyah.
‫ سينما الحب والغضب : افلام التمرد والثورة وقصص الحب والرومانسية / يسري حسين.
al-Qāhirah : Markaz al-Ḥaḍārah al-ʻArabīyah, 2005.
‫ القاهرة : مركز الحضارة العربية، 2005. ‬
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.E3 H87 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Ibrāhīm, Bashshār.
‫ ابراهيم، بشار. ‬

Thalāth ʻalāmāt fī al-sīnimā al-Filasṭīnīyah al-jadīdah : Mīshīl Khalīfī, Rashīd Mashharāwī, Īliyā Sulaymān.
‫ ثلاث علامات في السينما الفلسطينية الجديدة : ميشيل خليفي، رشيد مشهراوي، ايليا سليمان. ‬
Dimashq : Dār al-Madá, 2005.
‫ دمشق : دار المدى، 2005. ‬
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.P34 I37 2005 Check availability @ Duke
English Title: Three symbols of new Palestinian cinema: Michel Khleifi, Rashīd Mashharāwi, Elia Suleiman.

Kirel, Serpil.

Yesilçam öykü sinemasi.
Istanbul : Babil Yayinlari, 2005.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T84 K57 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Kronish, Amy

Conflict & peace : recent Israeli and Palestinian film.
Charlotte, NC : Mint Museum of Art, 1996.
Lilly Library Pamphlet Collection 4519 Check availability @ Duke

Kronish, Amy.

Israeli film : a reference guide.
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2003.
Lilly Library 791.4309569 K93, I85, 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Kurdī, Jamāl. ‫ كردي، جمال .

‬ Bānūrāmā al-sīnimā al-Miṣrīyah : bi-ruʾyah ʻaṣrīyah. ‫ بانوراما السينما المصرية : برؤية عصرية . ‬
Miṣr al-Qadīmah : Dār al-Ibdāʻ lil-Ṣiḥāfah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2005
‫ مصر القديمة : دار الابداع للصحافة والنشر والتوزيع، 2005 ‬
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.E3 K87 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Leaman, Oliver

Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film
London ; New York : Routledge, 2001
Lilly Library Reference 791.4375 C737, 2001 Check availability @ Duke

Loshitzky, Yosefa.

Identity politics on the Israeli screen.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Lilly Library 791.43 L879, I19, 2001 Check availability @ Duke

Naficy, Hamid.

An accented cinema : exilic and diasporic filmmaking.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
Lilly Library 791.4309172 N146, A169, 2001 Check availability @ Duke

Özgüç, Agâh.

Türk film yönetmenleri sözlüğü.
Taksim, İstanbul : Agora, 2003.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 O267 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Özgüç, Agâh.

Türk sinemasinda cinselligin tarihi.
Beyoglu, Istanbul : Parantez, 2000.
Lilly Library 791.4309561 O99, T939, 2000 Check availability @ Duke

Özgüç, Agâh.

Türlerle Türk sinemasi : dönemler, modalar, tiplemeler.
Istanbul : Dünya Kitaplari, 2005.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 Ö94 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Özön, Nijat.

Türk sinemasi tarihi : Dünden bugüne, 1896-1960.
Istanbul : Antalya Kültür Sanat Vakfi Kultur Yayinidir, 2003.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 O35 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Semmerling, Tim Jon.

"Evil" Arabs in American popular film : orientalist fear.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Lilly Library PN1995.9.A68 S46 2006 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: The exorcist : assault on American confidence (1973) -- Rollover : assault on the American economy (1981) -- Black Sunday: the loss of frontier heroism (1976) -- Three kings : assault on victory culture (1999) -- Rules of engagement : attack from the multicultural front (2000) -- CNN's America remembers : the "real" attack (2002) -- The South Park lesson and orientalist fear.

Shafik, Viola

Arab cinema : history and cultural identity
Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, 1998
Lilly Library 791.4309174 S525, A658, 1998 Check availability @ Duke

Shaheen, Jack G.

Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people.
New York : Olive Branch Press, 2001.
Lilly Library 791.43 S525, R327, 2001 Check availability @ Duke

Tapper, Richard (ed.)

The new Iranian cinema : politics, representation and identity.
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Lilly Library 791.430955 N532, 2002 Check availability @ Duke
Includes filmography: p. 262-269.

Tazi, Mohamed Abderrahman.

Beyond Casablanca : M.A. Tazi and the adventure of Moroccan cinema.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
Lilly Library PN1998.3.T397 A3 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Tuhāmī, Fuʾād. ‫ تهامي، فؤاد. ‬

al-Ḥarb wa-al-salām fī al-sīnimā al-tasjīlīyah al-Miṣrīyah.
‫ الحرب والسلام في السينما التسجيلية المصرية / فؤاد التهامي. ‬
Alexandria, Egypt : Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah, Markaz al-Funūn, c2003.
‫ [Alexandria، Egypt] : مكتبة الإسكندرية، مركز الفنون، c2003. ‬
Perkins/Bostock Library PN1993.5.E3 T84 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Yosef, Raz.

Beyond flesh : queer masculinities and nationalism in Israeli cinema.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Lilly Library 791.43653 Y65, B573, 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Zuhur, Sherifa (ed.)

Images of enchantment : visual and performing arts of the Middle East.
Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, c1998.
Lilly Library 700.956 I31, 1998 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: Introduction / Sherifa Zuhur -- Changing images and shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Women’s performance in ritual context : wedding among the Rashayda of Sudan / William Young -- Folk music and dance in the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia / Kay Hardy Campbell -- A procession through time: the Zaffat al-ʻarusa in three views -- Asmahan : Arab musical performance and musicianship under the myth / Sherifa Zuhur -- Performance, political identity, and memory : Umm Kulthum and Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir / Virginia Danielson -- Western classical music in Umm Kulthum’s country / Selim Sednaoui -- The music of Arab Americans : aesthetics and performance in a new land / Anne Rasmussen -- Beyond the performance / Simon Shaheen -- Gender and politics in contemporary art : Arab women empower the image / Salwa M. Nashashibi -- The artist’s voice / Chaibia Talal -- Imagery and invention : Sudanese at home and in the world conversations with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa / Sondra Hale -- Image and experience : why cinema? / Farida Ben Lyazid -- Victims or actors? centering women in Egyptian commercial film / Sherifa Zuhur -- Iranian cinema under the Islamic Republic / Hamid Naficy -- Reverse imagery : Middle Eastern themes in Hollywood / Rebecca Stone -- Farida Fahmy and the dancer's image in Egyptian film / Marjorie Franken -- Terrorism and Kabab : a Capraesque view of modern Egypt / Walter Armbrust.