As the Allied armies swarm into the collapsing Third Reich, the disagreements of Roosevelt and Churchill allow Stalin to gain effective control of Eastern Europe. The British military favors a sweep through the north of Germany to take Berlin. But Eisenhower opts instead to leave that region to the ...
Discover the Silk Road, the iconic trading route between Europe and Asia as it continues its renaissance through the teaching of Allah in Central Asia. Uzbekistan stood at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Civilization and developed into a Muslim Society. Discover the Silk Road's past and ...
Depending on your point of view Syria is either a rogue state run by an authoritarian regime or a champion of the Arab cause. But what's not in dispute is that the war in neighbouring Lebanon has drastically altered the balance of power in this region and radicalized opinion in Syria. One of ...
Statistics Canada tells us that only 20% of young Canadians between the ages of 18-20 vote in federal elections. This video brings together 150 grade 12 students from six high schools with local and federal politicians to discuss and debate the role of young Canadians in the political process. ...
The horrors of the death camps are exposed to the world with their liberation by the Allies; the loss in human lives in the forced marches, and in the flight in the east from the Russian steamroller, is enormous. Political maneuvering among the Big Three began in earnest as they sought to segregate ...
During the Middle Ages, Fez, once the crown jewel of Morocccan civilization was the core of Islamic Culture and education. At the Mosquee Qaraouiyne University some of the great scientists, mathematicians and mullahs studeid and subsequently awakened Europe out of the darkness of the middle ages ...
America was now the richest nation in the world; Britain was victorious, but bankrupt; the Soviet Union had been devastated but was ideologically strong and committed to the victory of its' brand of communism. The cooperation of the war years and the hopes of its' continuation faded and Europe ...
This program investigates the appeal of an officially terrorist organization: both in the isolated, more traditional Islamic Gaza Strip, and in the secularized West Bank. The earlier Palestinian popular support of Yassir Arafat's "Fatah" movement has declined as its corruption and scandals ...
In 711 AD the Moroccan Islamic army crossed the strait of Gibraltar and reached Tarifa, a port at the edge of the European continent, which began a rule of more that 800 years. Those years of Islamic rule left unique traces of its culture in the Andalusia region of Spain. Now, Southern Spain has a ...
Filmed in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran, this episode profiles the origins and history of Islam by analyzing the teachings of the Koran. The most sacred book in Islam, the Koran serves as a guiding principle and dictates a Muslim's daily life. Among other topics profiled: Jihad, architecture of some ...
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