Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting visits to ancient pharaonic tourist sites like the pyramids at Giza and Sakkara, the Nile River, and scenes of King Fuad at the horse races at Heliopolis. 00:00:00-00:00:35 “Cairo. Leaving for a day’s sightseeing from in front of the Continental Hotel.” Foreign tourists and café staff on terrace; sidewalk with local pedestrians and street with automobiles and trams; 00:00:36-00:01:55 “At the Great Pyramids.” Camels and camel drivers; tourists on camels with pyramids in background; 00:01:56-00:03:06 “The Sphinx and the Temple of the Sphinx”; 00:03:07-00:03:23 Obelisk at ancient Heliopolis with tourists; 00:03:24-00:04:42 “Scenes around the Alabaster Sphinx and the fallen Ramses at Memphis”; Tourists, village shepherd girl with herd of sheep in palm tree grove at site;Camels and trucks carrying goods on road; 00:04:43-00:05:18 “On our way to the Tombs of the Sacred Bulls we pass the Step pyramid. It is over five thousand years old.”; Tourists on donkeys with guides at the Step Pyramid at Sakkara; 00:05:19-00:06:14 “King Fuad at the races at Heliopolis”; King Fuad and male dignitaries on reviewing stand at Heliopolis race course;Egyptian flag flying over grandstand; horses racing on track with specators in forground; 00:06:15-00:06:48 One and two-masted felucca sailboats on Nile River; 00:06:49-00:07:16 “The Nile Valley is from eight to twelve miles wide. Beyond the hills on either side is desert.”: Mountains seen from Nile River.
This compilation video was created from scenes depicting AUC and its student, faculty, and campus in the AUC Historic Films collection. The video was created by RBSCL staff and displayed at Community Day in 2015
Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, depicting Cairo street scenes, commerce and trades, local leisure activities, and rural life and agricultural activities.
00:00:00-00:00:49 Captioned "Streets of Cairo." City gate, streets with human and animal-drawn carts, pedestrians, vendors; 00:00:50-00:01:01 "A Weaver at work."; 00:01:02-00:01:12 "Ironing - Egyptian Style." Shopkeeper pressing cloth using foot-iron; 00:01:12-00:01:12-00:01:25 "A Barber in Action." Shaving a man's head outdoors; 00:01:26-00:01:47 Snake charmer on street; 00:01:48-00:01:58 Men drumming outside possibly at moulid; 00:01:59-00:02:10 Street scenes with pedestrians and automobile; 00:02:11-00:02:18 Shopkeeper weighing merchandise on scale for female customer; 00:02:19-00:02:41 Street scenes with pedestrians, some carrying merchandise on heads; 00:02:42-00:03:12 Men playing dominoes and smoking shisha in ahwa cafe and street views; 00:03:13-00:04:12 "Scenes along the irrigation canals in the Date Forests of Marg, near Cairo," "An Egyptian family goes visiting." Men and children riding donkeys and camels, family on donkey cart; 00:04:13-00:04:47 "Irrigation in the Nile Delta is done by the Archimedes Screw." Farmers operating device at canal; 00:04:48-00:05:27 "Irrigating with a Shadoof" Farmers lifting water from canal to field; 00:05:27-00:06:11 Cow-driven sakia water wheel with children nearby; 00:06:11-00:06:50 "A primitive plow." Farmer with plow driven by two cows as truck passes in background; 00:06:51-00:07:07 "Sheep in the forests of Marg, near Cairo"
Film, black and white with intertitle cards and without sound, showing animals at the Giza zoo.
00:00:00-00:00:20 Captioned "A young Nubian Lion”’; 00:00:21-01:48: “The Hippo shows his tonsils”; zookeeper feeding hippopotamus, with enclosure bars and visitors in background; 00:01:49-00:02:15 “The Zebras in their latest stripes”; 00:02:16-00:02:34 “The Spoonbill belongs to the Crane family”; 00:02:35-00:03:13 “The Porcupines”; 00:03:14-00:04:07 “White Peacocks” with enclosure bars and visitors in background; 00:04:08-00:04:51 “Flamingos” in lake; 00:04:52-00:05:47 “Storks Egypt is a natural breeding ground for millions of them”
Film, black and white without sound, of the 1971 Miss AUC Competition and Celebration. Depicts students on campus campaigning with signs, banners, and chanting for contestants Salms Morsi, Nadia Habasy, Maria Lim and others, procession of contestants and other competition activities in Ewart Hall, and the awards ceremony with the crowning of and presentation of cup to Miss AUC Salwa Morsi. Also features footage of the awards dinner, band of musician, and students dancing. President Christopher Thoron (at 00:02:30-00:02:46) and wife Luz Thoron (at 00:01:44-00:01:56 and 00:03:19-00:03:26) and Dean of Students Frank Blanning (at 00:03:17) are shown. Students of various ethnic backgrounds, including Asian, are depicted, hair and clothing fashions of the era are shown, and there are scenes of students smoking.
Le martyre et le suicide dans l'Islam contemporain revêt une double importance. D'une part, on enregistre, dans le monde chiite et sunnite, une production intellectuelle extrêmement importante sur le sujet, qui non seulement concerne les religieux musulmans mais intéresse aussi les autres penseurs et par-delà la reflexion en Occident. D'autre part, les événements actuels en terre d'Islam et ailleurs montrent l'importance de ce phénomène qui interroge les sciences sociales. Le martyre est ici abordé sous différents aspects, afin d'en cerner la signification multiple, par des spécialistes de différentes disciplines: sociologues, anthropologues, politologues, psychologues et chercheurs en communication.La discussion autour des interventions de Maher SHARIF, Farhad KHOSROKHAVAR et Faleh A. JABAR aborde les problèmes politiques liés à la question des martyrs et de la lutte entre chiites et sunnites dans l’Islam contemporain.
Le martyre et le suicide dans l'Islam contemporain revêt une double importance. D'une part, on enregistre, dans le monde chiite et sunnite, une production intellectuelle extrêmement importante sur le sujet, qui non seulement concerne les religieux musulmans mais intéresse aussi les autres penseurs et par-delà la reflexion en Occident. D'autre part, les événements actuels en terre d'Islam et ailleurs montrent l'importance de ce phénomène qui interroge les sciences sociales. Le martyre est ici abordé sous différents aspects, afin d'en cerner la signification multiple, par des spécialistes de différentes disciplines: sociologues, anthropologues, politologues, psychologues et chercheurs en communication.Maher SHARIF traite de la question du djihad dans la pensée islamique moderne. Le concept de martyr est en effet étroitement lié au concept plus large de Djihad qui occupe une place importante dans les sources fondamentales de l’Islam et trouve un large écho dans le monde actuel.
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2004 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ; Sulaymān; Mizyān; al-Mārdīnī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ḥanīyah (Maqām); Ḥanīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hādī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Rabīʻ, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Prisoner); al-Salīm, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Nāyif (Martyr); Mizyān, al-Hādī ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Nūḥ, Abū ʻUmar (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded); Shaʻbān, ʻUmar (Martyr); Abū Waddū, Ṣālih (Martyr); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṣālih, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Dayshūm. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 12:57)Table of contents: Agriculture and land ownership in Dayshūm. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Customs and traditions. (@ 30:13)Table of contents: Military activity and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 40:6)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 60:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 2005 with Najīyah Ḥusayn, female, born in 1940 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Families: Sh'ḥādah; al-Maṣārwī; al-Ḥaj; Ḥamādah; Fandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻŪṣajī (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life in Qabbāʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Qabbāʻah . (@ 12:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 25:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Khālid Yūnus Khālid, male, born in 1928 in Shaʻb, Palestine. He worked in the Forestry Service and than in the post office.Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: War time and armed resistance. (@ 33:18)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 46:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:51)
Biography: Biiography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Dyāb, male, born in 1920? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Ṣghayyir, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Mūsá, Dyāb (Revolutionary); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Weapon trader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:39)Table of contents: Community life in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 26:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 42:11)Table of contents: Displacement and the journey of expulsion . (@ 64:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2003 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: ‘Awaḍ; Ayyūb; Ḥammād; Dāwūd.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Circumcisor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ(Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Arab Salvation Army commander); Rāḍī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Marār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ghurrah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Zaynah, Dāwūd (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 45:8)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 62:34)