CAMPUS RESOURCES :
• Language Tutoring
Anyone interested in teaching or receiving private tutoring in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish should contact the program director:
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Tel: (315) 443-5877
E-mail: mboroujerdi@maxwell.syr.edu
• Middle
East Listserv
The MIDEAST is an Internet Listserv devoted to discussions of the Middle East. Those who wish to subscribe to this free list should send a message to the list moderator, Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi, at mboroujerdi@maxwell.syr.edu.
Please include your full name and e-mail address.
• Syracuse University Press
SU Press is one of the leading academic publishers in the country in the area of Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies. The Press presently runs the following series in each field:
Jewish Studies
• Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music,
and Art
• The Library of Jewish Philosophy
• The Library of Modern Jewish Literature
• Modern Jewish History
• Religion, Theology,
and the Holocaust
Middle East Studies
• Arab American Writing
• Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series
• Middle East Literature in Translation
• Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Syracuse University Library
The SU library has many books, journals, videos, and films
pertaining to the Middle East and is trying to further improve its collection in this area. The following two staff members
in the library can help with inquiries about the Middle East collection: Elaine Coppola emcoppol@syr.edu,
Political Science Librarian, for assistance in locating specific SU Library print and electronic resources pertinent
to Middle Eastern Studies or to request library instruction sessions for your class with tips on accessing these resources.
Gurnek Singh, Asian Studies Librarian, has been acquiring a variety of material on Middle Eastern Studies in all pertinent
subject areas since 1971. Mr. Singh can help with acquisitions requests as well as reference inquiries dealing with the
Middle East.
• Video Collection
Partial List of Middle East Related Videos and Films Available at the Syracuse University
Library
Film 1702 Ancient Mesopotamia
DS119.7 What's the common ground between
American Arabs & Jews on the Middle East? (Law Library) (29 minutes)
VC HQ1726.7 Z75 A3 1995 Conversations across the Bosporus (Law Library) (42 min)
VC KF4836.C685 1985 Country Conditions: Iran (60 minutes)
VC KF4836.C682 1985 Country Conditions: Afghanistan (60 minutes)
VC 0157 Islam in Africa (60 minutes.)
VC 922 Kadosh (117 minutes)
VC 1013 An Introduction [to the religions of South Asia] (30 minutes)
VC 1021 Islam in South Asia (30 minutes)
VC 2220 Ancient Persia (11 minutes)
VC 2375 Ancient Mesopotamia (9 minutes)
VC 2685 The Middle East: Mosaic of People (22 minutes)
VC 2772 Middle East: The Desert of God (14 minutes)
VC 3127 Suleyman the Magnificent (57 minutes)
VC 5070 The Sufi Way (27 minutes)
VC 5607 King Hussein of Jordan (48 minutes)
VC 5763 The Arming of Iraq (58 minutes)
VC 5764 Lawrence of Arabia (216 minutes)
VC 5848 The Story of Islam (120 minutes)
VC 5854 The Five Pillars of Islam (130 minutes)
VC 5872 About the United Nations: Palestine (19 minutes)
VC 5951 The Sinai towards Peace (25 minutes)
VC 5952 Nine Years of Theodore Herzl (15 minutes)
VC 5955 Jewish Holy Places in the Land of Israel
VC 5965 Ben Gurion: Builder of a Nation
VC 5971 Feast of the First Fruit Shavuot
VC 5975 Cameras Are There: Israel and the Press
VC 5986 The Feast of Lights: Channukka (13 minutes)
VC 5988 This is our Faith (Judaism) (12 minutes)
VC 5989 PLO: The Victim's Story (9 minutes)
VC 5991 Kibbutz (30 minutes)
VC 5992 Israel: The Promise of the Jewish People (60 minutes)
VC 5994 Ancient Roots: Archeological Exploration in Israel (24 min)
VC 5995 Jerusalem: Gates of Time (28 minutes)
VC 6011 The Moshav: Israel’s Middle Way (27 minutes)
VC 6013 Jewish symbols: The Magic and Meaning (23 min.)
VC 6024 Conversation with Doctor Abraham Hershel (60 minutes)
VC 6166 Desert Storm: A Collection of Speeches (120 minutes)
VC 6194 Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (70 minutes)
VC 6247 The Making of the Arabs (58 minutes)
VC 6250 The Power of the Word (58 minutes)
VC 6253 The Shadow of the West (58 minutes)
VC 6255 Family Ties (58 minutes)
VC 6256 The Arabs Now (58 minutes)
VC 6258 Iran: A Revolution Betrayed (60 minutes)
VC 6262 Introduction to the Arab World (48 minutes)
VC 6263 The Struggle for Peace: Israelis & Palestinians (58 minutes)
VC 6266 Wedding in Galilee (113 minutes)
VC 6281 Ritual: Three Portraits of Jewish live (60 minutes)
VC 6283 Covenant: People of the Living Law (60 minutes)
VC 6315 Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Middle East (24 min)
VC 6361 Islam in America (60 minutes)
VC 6518 Talmud and the Scholar (58 minutes)
VC 6534 Yol (90 minutes)
VC 6539 Battle of Algiers (125 minutes)
VC 6553 Orient/Occident (30 minutes)
VC 6573 In the Name of God (97 minutes) [conflict between Hinduism and Islam]
VC 6594 Who Will Cast the First Stone? (59 minutes) [Women in Pakistan]
VC 6718 There is no God but God (52 minutes)
VC 6720 Judaism: The Chosen People (52 minutes)
VC 6761 Women and Islam (30 minutes)
VC 6805 Being Muslim in India (30 minutes)
VC 6852 Quest for Change: Civil Society in the Middle East (28 minutes)
VC 6853 Seyyed Hossein Nasr: The Islamic Mind (30 minutes)
VC 7082 Bombay: A Myth Shattered (25 minutes) [Hindu-Muslim cooperation]
VC 7240 Mosque recording (28 minutes)
VC 7241 Jihad (10 minutes)
VC 7280 Dreaming a Nation (50 minutes)
VC 7367 Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish odyssey (90 minutes)
VC 7386 The Wisdom of Faith (Islam – Part 4) (58 minutes)
VC 7572 Thief of Baghdad (138 minutes)
VC 7580 I am a Sufi, I am a Muslim (52 minutes)
VC 7908 India (120 minutes) [history of the past 100 years of the subcontinent]
VC 8010 Jihad in America (60 minutes) (also VT BP182 .J54 1994)
VC 8032 Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (120 minutes)
VC 8033 The Ottoman Empire (26 minutes)
VC 8043 Sentimental Imperialists (60 min)
VC 8046 Ottoman Supremacy (25 minutes)
VC 8084 Not Without My Veil: Women in Oman (29 minutes)
VC 8109 Edward Said on “Orientalism” (40 minutes)
VC 8110 The Myth of Clash of Civilizations (Lecture by Edward Said) (55 minutes)
VC 8275 The 50 Year Wars: Israel and the Arabs (300 minutes)
VC 8302 Israel: A Nation is Born (275 minutes)
VC 8351 Beyond the Veil: Are Iranian Women Rebelling? (22 minutes)
VC 8352 The Secret Mecca (54 minutes)
VC 8453 The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance (30 cassettes)
VC 8457 Let Iraq Live (34 minutes)
VC 8532 The Great Ideas of Philosophy (10 cassettes)
VC 8694 Leila (102 min)
VC 8720 Where is My Friend's House? (90 minutes)
VC 8802 Travelers (90 minutes)
VC 8803 Once Upon a Time Cinema (100 minutes)
VC 8855 The 20th Century: The 1980s, a decade of Decadence (65 minutes)
VC 9237 Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (75 minutes)
VC 9238 Islamic Resurgence and Holy War (52 min)
VC 9239 Afghanistan: Exporting the Taliban Revolution (24 minutes)
VC 9240 Palestine: 1890s-1990s (34 minutes)
VC 9244 Malcom X (3 ½ hours)
VC 9448 Indonesia (60 minutes)
VC 9506 Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land (66 minutes)
VC 9560 Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (79 minutes)
VC 9609 In My Father's House (70 minutes)
VC 9646 Islam: Empire of Faith (2 videos; 180 minutes)
VC 9658 Islam (52 minutes)
VC 9659 Judaism (50 minutes)
VC 9674 Earth (101 minutes) [before India and Pakistan became independent]
VC 9699 Under One Sky: Arab women in America Talk about the Hijab (44 min)
VC 9709 Ramadan (52 minutes) [about Islam in Indonesia]
VC 9710 Islam: The Five Pillars of Faith (Islam in Kashmir) (52 minutes)
VC 9711 Islam: A Sacrifice to Allah (15 minutes – Islam in Egypt)
VC 9802 The People’s Army (Israeli Army history) (52 minutes)
VC 9803 Whose State? Whose Religion? (Judaism/Israel) (52 minutes)
VC 9805 Future Peace, Next War (52 minutes) [Israel’s history]
VC 9821 Gaza Ghetto: Portraits of a Palestinian Family (82 minutes)
VC 9933 Behind the Veil (26 minutes) [Afghan women under fundamentalism]
VC 10092 From Beirut to Bosnia (3 videocassettes) (156 minutes) (#18)
VC 10094 Islam and Pluralism (30 min) [Islam in Malaysia]
VC 10095 The Islamic Wave (50 min)
VC 10096 The Islamic State (30 minutes)
VC 10125 Bashu: The Little Stranger (115 minutes)
VC 10137 Kashmir (44 minutes)
VC 10139 U.S.-Afghanistan Relations (42 minutes)
VC 10140 Stories My Country Told Me: With Eqbal Ahmad (56 minutes)
VC 10150 Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey (52 minutes)
VC 10151 License to Kill (45 minutes)
VC 10152 Thirsting for War (50 minutes)
VC 10169 Africa: In Defiance of Democracy (56 minutes)
VC 10171 Two Women (96 minutes)
VC 10172 A People Chosen: Who is a Jew (58 minutes)
VC 10232 Al Nakba: The Palestine Catastrophe (56 minutes)
“When the World Spoke Arabic” – 12 Volume VHS Series
VC 10241 The Arabs Make Their Entrance (26 minutes)
VC 10242 Once Upon a Time Baghdad (27 minutes)
VC 10243 The Andalusian Epic (27 minutes)
VC 10244 They Surveyed the World (26 minutes)
VC 10245 The Muslim Town (26 minutes)
VC 10246 An Art of Living (276 minutes)
VC 10247 The Secrets of the Human Body (27 minutes)
VC 10248 Everything Under the Sun (26 minutes)
VC 10249 The Thousand and One Nights (27 minutes)
VC 10250 Ulema and Philosophers (26 minutes)
VC 10251 From Arabic to Latin (26 minutes)
VC 10252 Forgetting Arabic (27 minutes)
VC 10253 Gaza Strip (74 minutes)
VC 10254 Divorce Iranian Style (80 minutes)
VC 10270 Close-Up (100 minutes)
VC 10288 Terrorism and the Kebab (157 minutes)
VC 10289 Saladin (145 minutes)
VC 10295 Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran (46 minutes)
VC 10312 Children of Heaven (88 minutes)
VC 10340 Nasser 56 (150 minutes)
VC 10596 In Shifting Sands: The Truth about UNSCOM Disarming Iraq (93 min)
VC 10820 Stakes of Islam (52 minutes)
VC 10862 Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia (52 minutes)
VC 10955 Ten (94 minutes)
VC 11185 Polanya: 1000 years of Jewish life in Poland (374 minutes)
VC 11475 A Child’s Century of War (90 minutes)
VC 11481 Human Weapon (56 minutes)
VC 11482 Naguib Mahfouz (50 minutes)
VC 11539 Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone? (55 minutes)
VC 11549 Slaves of the Sword: Ariel Sharon (56 minutes)
VC 11607 Slaves of the Sword: Moshe Dayan (56 minutes)
VC 11611 The Lobby (25 minutes)
VC 11626 The Women of Hezbollah (49 minutes)
VC 11628 Zinat, One Special Day (54 minutes)
VC 11629 Algeria's Bloody Years (59 minutes)
VC 11630 Alone With War (58 minutes)
VC 11640 Naji Al-Ali (52 minutes)
VC 11647 Back to Ararat (96 minutes)
VC 11709 For a Place Under the Heavens (53 minutes)
VC 11876 The Battle of Jenin (22 minutes)
VC 12044 Forget Baghdad
VC 12051 Reinventing the Taliban (46 minutes)
VC 12849 The Sheik - The Son of the Sheik
VC 12850 The Message
VC 12855 The Exodus
VC 12895 The Syrian Bride
VC 12896 Bab El-Oued City
VC 12897 Turtles can Fly
Video DVD 10214 Color of Paradise (90 minutes)
Video DVD 11022 Muslims: What it Means to be a Muslim in 21st Century (120 min.)
Video DVD 11109 Mystic Iran: The Unseen World (52 minutes)
Video DVD 11249 Osama (83 minutes)
Video DVD 11340 Iran, Veiled Appearances (59 minutes)
Video DVD 11460 Wearing Hijab: Uncovering the Myths of Islam in the U.S. (34 min.)
Video DVD 11480 Jenin: Massacring Truth (60 minutes)
Video DVD 11543 Ararat (115 minutes)
Video DVD 12053 Khomeini’s Children: Imprisoned Youth? (54 minutes)
Video DVD 12124 The Return of Allah (Shiites in Iraq – 52 minutes)
Video DVD 12139 Local Angel: Theological Political Fragments
Video DVD 12328 Me and the Mosque (52 minutes)
Video DVD 12500 The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Video DVD 12601 Promises
Video DVD 12737 Point of Attack
Video DVD 12738 Syria Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Video DVD 12739 Comedy Middle Eastern Style
Video DVD 12796 Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (80 minutes)
Video DVD 12805 Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Video DVD 13187 No End In Sight
Video DVD 13193 A Man in Our House
Video DVD 13195 Mozart in Turkey
Video DVD 13202 Palestine is Still the Issue
Video DVD 13208 To Die in Jerusalem
Video DVD 13274 Occupation 101 (90 min.)
Video DVD 13276 Goal Dreams: A Team Like No Other (86 min.)
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