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1) Wadjda
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Arabic
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Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring all at once, this groundbreaking...
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Awake volume 13
Language
Arabic
Description
Salary discrepancies at RPM cause Dana to suspect Ghassan of hiding info.
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Awake volume 11
Language
Arabic
Description
Joe returns to RPM and strikes up a friendship with Dana.
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Awake volume 14
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Arabic
Description
Dana asks Ghassan about the competition they entered as undergraduates.
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Madam President volume 3
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Arabic
Description
Nourau's meeting with General Najem, a known war criminal, sends protesters heading to the streets.
7) Bastardo
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Arabic
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Mohsen, "the bastard", was found in a dustbin 30 years ago by his adoptive father, and has always been rejected by the residents of the rundown district where he lives. When he is fired from his job, a mobile phone company comes to install a relay tower on the roof of his modest house in exchange for a monthly stipend, Bastardo has a reversal of fortune. The aerial makes Mohsen a wealthy and respected man, to the disgruntlement of the village mobster...
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Madam President volume 5
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Arabic
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When a wedding party ends in tragedy, Noura ignores security to comfort her constituents.
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Awake volume 10
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Arabic
Description
Ghassan feels torn between Dana and his girlfriend.
10) Traitors
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Arabic
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To keep her parents from being evicted and fund her Clash-inspired punk band, Malika takes a job smuggling drugs over the mountains. Her partner in the run is a world-weary veteran drug mule, who unexpectedly wins Malika's sympathy.
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Awake volume 9
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Arabic
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Dana returns to her life with new clarity and notices things she's missed.
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Awake volume 7
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Arabic
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Dana's memory returns about arguing with her father the day she was injured by a car bomb.
14) When I Saw You
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Arabic
Description
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in temporary refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses...
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Awake volume 12
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Arabic
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Nour tells Lama about his family's massacre in Syria and how her father took him in.
16) Taste Of Cement
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Arabic
Description
In Taste Of Cement, Ziad Kalthoum composes a striking essay on what it means to live in exile in a war-torn world with no possibilities to return home.
17) Mimosas
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Language
Arabic
Description
Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe's stunning new film, Mimosas, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik to the village where he was born. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. Without their leader, the company grows...
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Madam President volume 1
Language
Arabic
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MP Noura Sa'ad becomes the first woman President of Jabalein. With one year to prove herself, she challenges her citizens, particularly the youth, to help her put Jabalein on the path to modernity.
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Madam President volume 2
Language
Arabic
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When Noura moves to cut government perks, she incurs the wrath of Bassem and the powers that be.
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Awake volume 6
Language
Arabic
Description
Imaginary Dana has disappeared and so has Dana's creative edge.
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