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Friedman Says Qatar Real Pioneer in Region, Got Off Track
Jun.22 -- Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman weighs in on the diplomatic spat between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations. He speaks with Betty Liu from the 50th Wharton Global Forum on "Bloomberg Markets."
Bridgeman Arts
FLM PS0659 9 Bahrain 1960s - Boys going to school and playing basketball.
Clip 9 from French language film about Bahrain in the 1960s. Archeologists at Ras Al Qala'a archaeological site. Ruins. Boys going to school and playing basketball.
Bridgeman Arts
Date trees and market vendors. Algeria, 1947
Clip 7 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. Scenes of palm trees and date trees. Men sort through the date harvest and prepare them for market.
Bridgeman Arts
Insane people in small Moroccan vilage are put into an underground bunker, religious leaders exorcise people by hitting them with a shoe, c.1960
Marabout hits people with a leather slipper / shoe. Mad people lead to a shed / prison / underground shelter by others. Medium shot : Moroccan man making gestures to the camera, saying something (we don't hear his voice). Close up of...
Bridgeman Arts
Sheikh in Biskra. Farmers and children with animals. Algeria, 1947
Clip 2 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. A sheikh, and pictures of sheikhs on the wall. A man climbs up a tree and gathers its branches. Farmers plough the land. Children...
Bridgeman Arts
Bedouin tribesmen on camels in Algerian desert, 1957
Clip 6 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. Shot of shadows on the ground of people walking with their camels in the Tamanghasset region. Shot of tribesman crouching and looking on the horizon with rising sun, with...
Bridgeman Arts
Children swimming in pool and Tuareg farmland in Algerian desert, 1957
Clip 5 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. Children playing in a swimming in pool in the Hoggar / Ahaggar region.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Iraqi conservators strive to preserve ancient manuscripts
In an annex of Iraq's national museum, a conservator pores over a 17th-century manuscript, carrying out delicate restoration work as part of efforts to preserve and digitise 47,000 precious texts (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
UPITN 6 11 78 PRESS CONFERENCE BY PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION
Press conference held by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Athens. Translations of the PLO spokesman speaking in Arabic are by PLO press spokesman Mahmoud Labadi, and they are commenting on an Arab Conference's response to...
Curated Video
RR 8640A
(Dur: 6 minutes 3 seconds)
Shotlist:
Baghdad and Tehran street scenes:
Iranian troops:
Saddam Hussein posters in Baghdad:
pictures of Ayatollah in Tehran:
Friday prayers in Tehran:
Ayatollah Beheshti sot
1981: aftermath of bomb at...
Curated Video
Various - Neve Shalom
(Dur: 6 mins. 13 secs/english sot 1 min. 35 secs)
As peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have broken down over Israel's decision to build a new Jewish settlement in disputed east Jerusalem, relations between both communities...
Curated Video
IRAQ: BAGHDAD: REACTION TO US ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN & SUDAN
Arabic/Eng/Nat
Iraqis have reacted angrily against U-S air strikes against their 'brothers' in Afghanistan and Sudan.
At Friday prayer sessions across the country, Iraqis were called upon to united against America.
SOUNDBITE:...
Curated Video
Arab League calls for immediate end to Israeli attacks
1. Pan of exterior of venue for Arab League meeting
2. Wide shot of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saud Al-Faisal, Saudi foreign minister:
"The council has requested the urgent stopping of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip...
Curated Video
Witnesses at scene of second blast urge Assad to act
1. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop, Damascus resident (no name given), reacting to blast outside criminal security department (one of two early morning blasts):
"The explosion took place at eight o'clock in the morning. People woke up with...
Curated Video
Jordan - Kamel Presser
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son-in-law General Hussein Kamel
Hassan said Saturday (12/8) he had initiated contacts to help
topple the Iraqi regime. Hassan spoke at his first public appearance
since his defection to Jordan on Tuesday...
Curated Video
UPITN 4 4 78 PFLP SPOKESMAN SPEAKING IN BAGHDAD ABOUT DEATH OF WADIE HADDAD
Bassam Abu Sharif, official spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) making a statement in Baghdad following the death of the Palestinian guerrilla fighter Wadie Haddad.
1. various of Sharif speaking...
Curated Video
Arab leaders arrive for summit, Iraqi, Palestinian, Sudanese comments
1. Shot of sea at Sharm El-Sheik
1. Airport arrival of Arab leaders for summit, greeted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
2. Head of Iraqi delegation, Vice President Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, arrives, shakes hands with Prime Minister...
Curated Video
FM Saud al-Faisal and Rice on Iran, Middle East
1. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, walk in
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State
"I think what we need to do is to have the three tracks on which...
Curated Video
TURKEY: NEW DEFENCE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL
English/Nat
Turkey is set to sign a new defence agreement with Israel - a move which is certain to enrage its Arab neighbours once again.
Earlier this year, Turkey and Israel signed an agreement allowing pilots to train in each other's...
Curated Video
SYND 9-4-70 GOLDMAN PRESS CONFERENCE
Dr Nahum Goldmann President of World Jewish Congress interviewed in Tel Aviv
1 SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Nahum Goldmann speaks about possible talks with ArabsFilm: Pos - Sound: Yes - Colour - Paperwork N - NYFilm: c0010272 - LN Number:...
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Rice meets Amr Moussa, comments
1. Exterior of Winter Palace
2. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meeting Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa
3. Photo op. of Rice and Moussa shaking hands, pan from Rice to Moussa
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amr Moussa,...
Curated Video
MIDDLE EAST: REACTIONS TO ARAB LEADERS SUMMIT
English/Nat
As the emergency Arab League summit in Cairo broke up at midday on Sunday, there were mixed reactions in Israel and the Palestinian Authority to the final communique.
Israel seemed satisfied with the outcome, and a...
Curated Video
Russian Embasssy closed, missile factory, marches, womens' demo
1. Wide shot of Russian Embassy
2. Close up of Russian Flag
3. Mid shot of entrance to Russian Embassy
4. Plaque on entrance to Russian Embassy
5. Wide shot of entrance to Ibin Al-Haithem Missile Al-Samoud 2 factory
6. Long shot of...
Curated Video
Israel - Levinger In Court
Israeli troops patrolled the streets of East Jerusalem as leader of the hardline Jewish settlement in Hebron, Rabbi Moshe Levinger appeared in a West Jerusalem court after being questioned by police on Monday (14/3).
ws of court...