Films
- The Band’s Visit
This heartwarming and poignant winner of the Audience Award at the Munich and Warsaw Film Festivals, is the mesmerizing and witty story of strangers in a strange land. A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. When they take the wrong bus, the band members find themselves in a desolate Israeli village. With no other option than to spend the night with the local townspeople, the two distinctly different cultures realize the universal bonds of love, music and life. Set against a breathtaking desert landscape, this cross-cultural comedy proves that getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself. - Jews & Muslims: Intimate Strangers
Jews and Muslims are seen as the archetype of enemies in endless conflict, a perception made of misunderstandings and omissions. Yet history shows us that the conflict and tension is quite recent, a mere 150 years. By traveling back to the time of Muhammad and then forward to present day, the goal of this balanced and well-researched series is to lay out the facts and deconstruct historical misbeliefs.
Recommended Secondary Sources
Identity and Violence by ISBN: 9780393329292Publication Date: 2007-02-17
Cultures of the Jews by ISBN: 9780805241310Publication Date: 2002-10-15Encyclopaedia of Islam
Publication Date: Online edition. Second editionEncyclopaedia of the Qurʼān
Publication Date: 2005Encyclopedia of the Jews of the Islamic World
Publication Date: 2010
The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations by ISBN: 9781317383208Publication Date: 2016-06-23
The Qur'an by ISBN: 9780192805485Publication Date: 2004-07-01
A History of the Muslim World by ISBN: 9780691236575Publication Date: 2024-05-07
The Jew in the Modern World by ISBN: 9780195389067Publication Date: 2010-12-21
The Study Quran by ISBN: 9780061125867Publication Date: 2015-11-17
