{"id":3360,"date":"2021-07-10T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designrepository.design\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:32:32","slug":"the-arabic-film-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designrepository.design\/the-arabic-film-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arabic Film Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Arab Film Archive is an initiative that aims at collecting and digitizing classical arab films in order to make them accessible for educational and research purposes. It is a project that provides a temporary answer to the ongoing monopoly of hundreds of Arab movies that were sold under complete exclusive rights to private TV networks back in the \u201890s and early 2000s without any consideration of the need to provide them on an institutional right basis for education and\/ or individual research. 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