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[Ibrahim Farrah]

Title
[Ibrahim Farrah] [videorecording]
Publication
[199-?]

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Additional Authors
Farrah, Ibrahim.
Description
2 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (124 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Ibrahim Farrah (full name Robert Ibrahim Farrah, also known as Bobby), an eminent performer, teacher, and scholar of Middle Eastern dance, and the founder/publisher of Arabesque magazine, appears in an interview and as the teacher of a class in belly dancing.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Phyllis Saretta.
Series Statement
Ibrahim Farrah Archives.
Subject
  • Dance > Middle East
  • Belly dance > Social aspects
  • Belly dance > Study and teaching
  • Arab Americans
  • Women > Middle East > Social conditions
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Note
  • Unedited footage.
Contents
  • Cassette 1. [Interview with Ibrahim Farrah] (ca. 61 min.) / recorded in New York City in the mid-1990s. Speaking to an off-camera female interviewer, Ibrahim Farrah discusses his family's roots in Lebanon; growing up in a close-knit Lebanese immigrant community in western Pennsylvania; his early experience of dance as a tradition handed down from one generation to another; founding Arabesque magazine as a means of correcting the paucity of information on Middle Eastern dance; the social and political forces behind the fad for belly dancing in America of the 1970s; American attitudes to the Middle East; stereotypical images of Middle Eastern dance, and the reality behind them; dance and the status of women in the Middle East. The interview appears to be incomplete; at ca. 58 min. into the tape, Farrah, the interviewer, and others off-camera announce a break and converse more informally.
  • Cassette 2. [Belly dancing class taught by Ibrahim Farrah] (ca. 63 min.) / recorded at Fazil's Dance Center, New York, N.Y. Parts of the recording use special camera techniques which alter the image and flow of movement; some parts emphasize camera work rather than the documentation of the class.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8012
OCLC
NYPY04-F511
Title
[Ibrahim Farrah] [videorecording]
Imprint
[199-?]
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Ibrahim Farrah Archives.
Performer
Interviewee: Ibrahim Farrah.
Added Author
Farrah, Ibrahim. Interviewee. Teacher
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8012
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