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Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Discover the music of Arab composer and singer Marcel Khalife.

Films

The Road to Guantanamo (2006, 1h: 31 mins) Life Style of Richest People of the Middle East (2006) The Battle of Algiers (1966, 2hrs) The Black Panthers Speak (2003, 53 mins) Palestine 1948 (July 2007, 9:39) The Yacoubian Building Related films: The War on Democracy by John Pilger (2007, 1hr 34mns)
The Battle of Algiers Berlin Alexanderplatz by Fassbinder Omar Destiny by Youssef Shahine Bab Al-Hadid by Youssef Shahine Gangs of New York Papillion Ivan the Terrible Amistad Frida Jamon Jamon by Bigas Luna Schindler's List Of Mice and Men Animal Farm The Night by Mohammad Malas Clockwork Orange Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket Rosa Luxemburg Sophie Scholl Wilhelm Reich Lolita Midnight Express Potemkine Querel de Brest by Fassbinder The Great Revival Life of Brian Oliver Twist Motorcycle Diaries 1984 The War on Democracy (a documentary by John Pilger) Land of Freedom by Ken Loach Bread and Roses Michael Collins Strike by Eiseinstein Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrik Al-Massir by Youssef Shahine Persepolis Germinal Caution, Lust

Quotes

“Hugo of St. Victor, a twelfth-century monk from Saxony, wrote these hauntingly beautiful lines: It is, therefore, a source of great virtue for the practised mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about invisible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be able to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. ” Quoted in Edward Said’s  Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , p. 190 . “A society is not the temple of value-idols that figure on the front of its monuments or in its constitutional scrolls; the value of a society is the value it places upon man’s relation to man. To understand and judge a society one has to penetrate its basic structure to t