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Tunisia has a long and vibrant history of cinema. Starting in 1922, Samama Chikly made what are widely considered some of the first films to come out of Tunisia: Zohra and Ain El Ghazel starred his daughter Hayde. By the late 40s, Tunisia had a booming film scene. Omar Khlifi’s L’Aube (1967) was the first Tunisian feature film to be released. This came one year after the inaugural edition of the Carthage Film Festival, launched in 1966 to celebrate Arab-language and African film. We’ve gathered a selection of Tunisian films that's not to be missed from across the decades.
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Sitting at the intersection of Europe, the Middle East, and West Africa, Morocco is home to a rich variety of folk music traditions. Yet for much of the 20th century, thanks to French Orientalism and persistent class biases, these genres remained socially and commercially marginalized. In the 1970s however, new technologies, increased migration, and political activism combined to create a Golden Age for Moroccan popular music.
What's there to be said of Ziad Rahbani? Our fortune is really in being able to listen to the work left behind for us by this legend whose words, music, and thoughts were etched in Lebanon’s collective memory, echoing beyond borders to shape generations of Arab musicians and become an undeniable part of Lebanon's cultural heritage.
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