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Arabic
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Capernaum tells the story of Zain (Zain al-Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life. The film follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old "adult" fleeing his negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, where he meets Ethiopian migrant worker Rahil, who provides him with shelter and food, as Zain takes care of her baby son Yonas in return. Zain later gets...
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Arabic
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Hikayat 'ashab alrasayil, alty katabuha wadaeat mathaluhum fi albuhr. lknnha tastadei rsayl 'ukhraa, tataqatae mithl masayir hula' alghrba'. hum almuhajiruna, 'aw almhjjrwn, 'aw almnfyuwn almshrradwn, yatamaa buldanihim alty kasratha alayaam fahalt hywatihm 'iilaa lueba "bazl". lays fi hadhih alriwayat min yaqinu. lays man qatal mjrmana, wala almwms eahrtan. 'innha, kama zamanna, mintaqat alshk alkabiri, walailtibasa, wammiha' alhudud... wadayae al'amkinat...
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Our stories carried us here volume 2
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Arabic
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"Zaynab Abdi chronicles her journey from Somalia to Yemen and ultimately the United States, where she shares a stage with Malala and becomes a voice for refuge. Her graphic memoir is told in both English and Arabic. Zaynab was born in Somalia and raised by her grandmother in Yemen, where they experienced a simple but beautiful life before unrest came to the country. Follow Zaynab as she flees to Egypt with her sister. Feel the love she is greeted...
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The García sisters and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives.
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Arabic
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"College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed mektoub (destiny), where gradual...