Abdallah Chamekh
Director
Al Jazeera World (2011)
2022
A one-hour series showcasing documentary films from across the Al Jazeera Network.
Released May 19, 2011
Episode 46 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.middle-east, tmdb.mediterranean, tmdb.north-africa, tmdb.news, tmdb.current-affairs, tmdb.arab-culture, tmdb.near-east, tmdb.history
Network: Al Jazeera English
S12E1 - The Sacred Woods
Young men from a remote village in Ivory Coast undergo gruelling coming-of-age rituals.
Jan. 25, 2022, midnight
S12E2 - Palestine 1920
A thriving trading nation or a land without a people? Historians and witnesses on Palestine before the events of 1948.
Feb. 1, 2022, midnight
S12E3 - Literary Liaisons: Thinkers and Surrealists
We explore links between a famous Russian writer and an Egyptian scholar, and between French and Egyptian surrealists.
Feb. 8, 2022, midnight
S12E4 - The Colours of Home
An artist dreams of painting a mural that connects the plights of Black Americans, Native Americans and Palestinians.
Feb. 15, 2022, midnight
S12E5 - Visa for a Stray Dog
The story of Layaly, a street dog from Cairo who cheats death and embarks on a new life in Canada.
March 1, 2022, midnight
S12E6 - Turkey's Senkaya Bus
A local bus driving through mountains reveals the remote lives, communities and environments of eastern Turkey.
April 26, 2022, midnight
S12E7 - Songs of the Gulf
Four songs from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Iraq reveal a rich source of stories from the Arabian Gulf.
May 3, 2022, midnight
S12E8 - Austria: Operation Luxor
Raids on Muslim homes and organisations in Austria in 2020 – an 'anti-terrorist' measure or a sign of Islamophobia?
May 17, 2022, midnight
S12E9 - An American in My Home
Two female American students move in with Moroccan families as cultural immersion, with life-changing results for one.
May 24, 2022, midnight
S12E10 - Med Hondo: Rebel African Filmmaker
The African cinema luminary whose films on injustice and racism challenged and often shocked European audiences.
May 31, 2022, midnight
S12E11 - Arabs Abroad: The Pharmacologist and the Scientist
A Libyan pharmacologist treating HIV patients in South Africa and a Tunisian scientist purifying water in Malaysia.
June 7, 2022, midnight
S12E12 - Painting in the Dark
The inspiring story of Esref Armagan, a blind Turkish artist who became a critically acclaimed painter.
June 14, 2022, midnight
S12E13 - Al Shishakli: Syria's Master of Coups
The rise and fall of 1950s Syrian President Adib Al Shishakli, a master of military coups and defeating rivals.
June 21, 2022, midnight
S12E14 - Hany El Banna: The Giving Business
The founder of the world's largest Western-based international Muslim relief agency, one that helps millions worldwide.
July 19, 2022, midnight
S12E15 - The Sixties in the Arab World (1): Politics
The first in a three-part series on how the Arab world was transformed during the 1960s, a decade of change.
Aug. 2, 2022, midnight
S12E16 - The Sixties in the Arab World (2): Culture
The second of a three-part series. How music, literature and the arts broke new ground in the Arab world of the 1960s.
Aug. 9, 2022, midnight
S12E17 - The Sixties in the Arab World (3): Society
The third in a three-part series about how people and society were transformed in the Arab world of the 1960s.
Aug. 16, 2022, midnight
S12E18 - Arab Love Songs
Four unique songs of Middle Eastern romance, each with its own story of drama, tragedy and deception.
Sept. 13, 2022, midnight
S12E19 - Who Are They Now? Norway's Foreigners at Home
In 1996, new immigrants to Norway described what it meant to live there. Twenty-five years on, are they Norwegian yet?
Sept. 27, 2022, midnight
S12E20 - The Colours of Healing
Egyptian women use alternative therapies – colours, clay, movement and dance – to fight depression and other issues.
Oct. 4, 2022, midnight
S12E21 - Tam Tam Basketball
The team of teenage African Italian minors who fought to play basketball, all the way to Italy's parliament.
Oct. 18, 2022, midnight
S12E22 - The Kabul Bank Crash
The inside story of Kabul Bank and the nearly $1bn of money laundering and corruption that devastated Afghanistan.
Oct. 25, 2022, midnight
S12E23 - Maradona in Naples
Diego Maradona is revered by Neapolitans as the saviour of their city, from his glory days playing football for Napoli.
Nov. 1, 2022, midnight
Al Jazeera English
46 min/ep
17571 min
May 19, 2011
June 1, 2024, midnight
Returning Series
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