Documentary on the life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers.

"He was the most beloved Jew of his time. 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934 in Tel Aviv. He became the Zionist national poet at the age of 30--who was Chaim Nachman Bialik, also known as the King of the Jews? Using an especially designed animation for this film, a narration of Bialik by Chaim Topol (Fiddler of the Roof), and early 20th century music sung by Ninnette, Israel's most popular singer, the film unveils the story of this once very known and loved man who layed the layers for Israeli culture"--http://bialikfilm.com.

"Tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinean national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world"--Disc jacket.

A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. Using a rich collection of archival footage, the film recreates a time in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest.

A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, seven recorded tapes from her last interview, which were made with Helit Yeshurun, are discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses to her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with god and about the dangers of writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews, with rare archival footage, with her poems and with animation that revives Wallach's thoughts, images and visions.

"Author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, The Harafish, Arabian Nights and Days and many other novels and collections of short stories, Mahfouz weaves the threads of his life together with his view of society, his childhood, his discovery of literature (Egyptian and Western), the city of Cairo (which he left only three times in his life), Islamic fundamentalism, the evolution of Egypt, the role of women, and the future of civilization"--Container.

A dramatic work. It's the third part of Najīb Maḥfūẓ's triple fiction (Bayna al-qaṣrayn, Qaṣr al-Shawq, and al-Sukkarīyah). The lights upon al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Jawwād's family the second and the third generations. It exposed the political and social changes and the effects on his grandsons and granddaughters. While his youngest son Kamal lived in a romantic way. He tried to fined the truth through his romanticizm. The end of this work didn't end by the death of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Jawwad but the life continued through the birth of his last grandson.

According to contemporary reviewers, "Uncle Moses" follows closely the Yiddish Art Theater's adaptation of the 1918 Sholem Asch novel by the same name. Best known for his portrayals of the shtetl, in "Uncle Moses" Asch shifts his focus from Eastern Europe to New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century. In vivid, sometimes comic, yet always soberly realistic images, the film portrays the lives of East European shtetl Jews transplanted onto American soil. The bustling sweatshop and overcrowded tenement serve as the backdrop for a rich thematic blend of romantic intrigue, old and young love, realization of financial success, disintegration of the Jewish family, early struggles of the garment workers' union movement, and the clash of old-world values and new-world dreams. The pivotal role of Uncle Moses, benevolent despot and self-made patriarch among his landsmen, serves as an excellent vehicle for consummate actor Maurice Schwartz. While often flamboyant in his portrayal of this complex figure, Schwartz achieves a characterization of great dignity and compassion.

A masterpiece written by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Set in Cairo in 1944 this story is about a woman who is attracted to a nightclub owner when her fiancé finds work out of town.

One of the most popular and biggest grossing Egyptian films of all time. This is also the last musical by singing sensation ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ḥāfiẓ. It contains some of his most popular songs.

A classic Egyptian film about two idealistic young people during the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 60s and early 70s of the last century. The film takes its name from the cafe where many intellectuals and college students, whose loyalties to the regime were in question, gathered.