Mosaic Video Alerts
Category: News & Current Affairs
This series of video segments highlights select stories from Mosaic: World News from the Middle East that deal with fast breaking news.

In Focus: Political Assassinations - Rafik Hariri - Part 1
Category: News & Current Affairs
Rafik Hariri, son of a farm worker from Lebanon, because the Lebanese prime minister several times. In 2005 he was killed in a bomb attack, and observers pointed their fingers at the Syrian secret service.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: An Armenian Homecoming
Category: Documentaries
An Armenian family, driven out of Turkey during the genocide of 1915, returns to their family homeland, determined to find their old house, the church where their parents were married and to find out more about their family’s history.

In Focus: Close Up - Islamic World, Secular World
Category: News & Current Affairs
This episode of In Focus looks at Turkey - a deeply divided country, torn between east and west, between the Islamic religious and the progressive secular forces, and between repression and democracy.

CINEMONDO: World Cinema on Link TV
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO is Link TV's regular series of outstanding world cinema, hosted by Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch clips and interviews from featured CINEMONDO directors here.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Deadly Playground
Category: Documentaries
Since the end of the 2006 war with Israel, a thirteen year-old from a village in south Lebanon has been watching de-mining experts in his area, as they clear the fields of the unexploded cluster bombs fired by the Israelis.

Bridge to Iran: Dream of Silk
Category: Documentaries
Young girls at an Iranian all-girls high school talk about their dreams for the future in this Bridge to Iran doc. This is a candid exploration of the young girls' aspirations and hopes, at a powerful and fleeting point in their lives.

Bridge to Iran: Pilgrimage
Category: Documentaries
Despite the dangers, determined Iranian Shiite Muslims have been pouring across the Iran-Iraq border since the fall of the Iraqi government, risking their lives in a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala, fifty miles south of Baghdad.

Bridge to Iran: Zinat - One Special Day
Category: Documentaries
Zinat lives an ordinary Iranian woman's life, cooking and tending to her home. But this doesn't stop her from running against a man in the local municipality elections, with the support of family and friends.

Bridge to Iran: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Category: Documentaries
Using incredible archival footage, an original visual approach and terrific soundtrack, "Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!" covers 150 years of Tehran’s history, entertaining us with its poignant contradictions.

GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
Category: World Cinema
Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.

GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
Category: World Cinema
A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.

In Focus: Last Days In Paradise
Category: News & Current Affairs
Diving tourists have discovered a new paradise: the coral reefs in the Red Sea. Local Egyptian environmentalists are now fighting back with the aim of stopping the destruction of this unique underwater world.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Singing Barber of Mosul
Category: Documentaries
It’s not safe to be shaving beards and singing pop songs in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul. Mohamed Yunis is 26 years old. His day job is a barber - but he loves to sing. So he decides to take it on the road...to Beirut.

Special: Blood and Oil
Category: Documentaries
Five years and $600 billion dollars later America is asking itself, is the Iraq war really about oil? Host Thom Hartmann talks through this life-or-death issue with expert Michael Klare, and we present Klare's doc, "Blood and Oil."