Aflama

Documentary Production in Progress

DAUGHTERS OF THE LEVANT (W/T) 2003

Interviews and footage filmed to date include: Dr. Alixa Naff, Dr. Anne Rasmussen, playwright Katie Buck, Mr. Georges Hatab (Helen Samhan's father), poet Elmaz Abi Nader and her brother Jean Abi Nader from AAI, Queen Noor, writer Dr.Greg Orfalea, Ms. Ruth Ann Skaff, author Dr. Evelyn Shakir, Dr. Evelyn Menconi, Yvonne Homsi, Elaine Hagopian, Emily Hajar, and actress Wendie Malick.

Your assistance is required:

Filmmaker in Washington, DC working on a video documentary on Arab American women immigrants and their descendents who came to the US during the first wave of immigration and before WWII needs your assistance.

Looking for visual material to include in the film, such as photos/footage/memorabilia, artifacts, etc...

If you have items from your family collection or live in Boston/NY/Minnesota and other places that have libraries and museums and you could help locate any audio visual materials it would be great.

I am looking for visual materials than can be included in a film rather than books or academic references.

Generic footage of women immigrants from that period in history would work, even if they are not for sure from Arab ancestry.

Some of the categories for which any visuals would work are: (the trick is that faces of women are generic enough to refer to Arab American women before WWII.)

Ellis Island footage/photos
NY city images/photos from around 1900-1950
NY garment district
women in dresses
women in the streets
women with cars/horses/carts/walking
speakeasies with women in the shots
women peddlers
women doctors
store owners
boats on shores (Marseille/NY/Syrian/Lebanon...)
women singers/dancers/actors [if they're famous, they will have to be Arab American]
women teachers
women journalists
women writers
women in the media
Syrian Women's Aid Society (Boston/NY)

* It would be best to find footage/photos that in the public domain and not copyrighted.

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