Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most prominent literary critics of the late 20th century and a leading spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the US. In this episode, Said examines Western attitudes to the Arabs and finds their origins in the Crusades, Hollywood and European empire building. He sees the Palestinian fate as the result of years of Western interference. One of the ten episodes of The Arabs: A Living History.

Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through ...

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel durin...

One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For t...

Born on March 25, 1840, Gustave Guillaumet discovered Algeria by chance when he was about to embark ...

For almost two thousand years, the story of Jesus’ final days has been celebrated by Christians the ...

The story of how a small group of teenagers created a skate scene from scratch in a place where you ...

Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palest...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, includin...

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

This documentary, filmed after October 7, places recent events in context and retraces the extraordi...

The Tank and The Olive Tree recalls a certain number of forgotten fundamentals and sheds new light o...

In the fall of 2002, it was announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would deliver a speech at Concordia Un...

Bible expert Bill Gallatin explores biblical prophecies from the Book of Revelation that have transp...

An English-speaking film produced on behalf of the Israeli Center of the International Theater Insti...

A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufactu...

A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for unsanctioned peace talks during the 1...

A look inside the work of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former IDF combat soldiers who co...