Embedded Files
Films
Films
STCC students, faculty, and staff have access to the following films through the library's database, Kanopy.
If you need assistance logging into the database, please see our documentation on accessing Kanopy.
2020, 1hr 32min
Alba Rohrwacher plays Alice, a Swiss woman who moved to Beirut in the 1950s and falls in love with a Lebanese astrophysicist with dreams of sending his fellow citizens into space, and who is the object of Alice’s affection. Joseph and Alice appear to lead the perfect life until their bliss is ripped apart by the civil war and nothing will be the same again.
2018, 13min
Salam (Hana Chamoun) is a Lyft driver from a tight knit family. A portion of her family lives in Syria. When her New York based family gets word of a bombing in Syria, it’s a waiting game to know if their loved ones are ok.
To rest her nerves, Salam decides to go to work. She picks up Audrey (Leslie Bibb), who seems to be in distress herself. The exchange that follows is a layered interaction of surface expectations versus what’s really underneath the surface of our daily lives.
Nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival and at the London Film Festival.
2011, 1hr 35min
Winner at the Sundance Film Festival, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit.
Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. "I feel like the camera protects me," he says, "but it's an illusion."
Local Events
Local Events
El Khat are a junkyard funk band from Yemen
$18 - $49
April 10th, 7pm
BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity
Florence, MA
Educational Resources
Educational Resources
The Arab American Institute Foundation focuses primarily on three buckets of work. Strengthening our democracy, protecting civil rights and civil liberties for all, and standing for international peace and human rights. We believe for our country to live up to its democratic ideals, all citizens must be able to fully participate in public life free from bigotry and discrimination, and that international policy must be based on human rights for all.
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is the first and only museum in the United States devoted to documenting and sharing Arab American contributions that shaped the economic, political and cultural landscapes of American life. The Museum also brings to light the shared experiences of immigrants and ethnic groups, paying tribute to the diversity of our nation. We tell the Arab American story through the voices and experiences of Arab Americans.
Why Arabs and Arab Americans feel being counted as White in the US doesn’t reflect their reality.
This paper from the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review argues that with the seeds of prejudice planted and growing, Arab Americans crucially require official categorization on the United States Census to establish them as a minority group in the eyes of the law in order to access established government policies that benefit underserved communities, such as affirmative action.
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