• 2016
Van Nablus naar Ninevé

Summary In the TV-series From Nablus to Ninevé the Dutch presenter Kefah Allush returns to his birth ground, Palestinian Nablus. From there he starts an impressive search for the forgotten tribes of the Middle East. View more details

  • 2016

Van Nablus naar Ninevé

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Kefah Allush

All cast & crew

0

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 24, 2016

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Language : Dutch

Summary In the TV-series From Nablus to Ninevé the Dutch presenter Kefah Allush returns to his birth ground, Palestinian Nablus. From there he starts an impressive search for the forgotten tribes of the Middle East. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 24, 2016

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Language : Dutch

Photos

Van Nablus naar Ninevé (2016)

Episodes

View All Seasons
Episode 1 • Jul 24, 2016
De Samaritanen
Dutch-raised Palestinian Kefah Allush starts his first journey along Middle Eastern minorities in a suburb of his native Nablus on the West Bank. Together with Tell Aviv, its the last native town of the Biblical people of Samaritans, at least 3600 years old and functioning as mediators between (Muslim or Christian) Arabs and Jews. Their high-priest, a post falling to the eldest male of the Cohen family, claims they once numbered 3,000,000, trough conversion, persecution and emigration down to 146 a century ago, now 'growing back' to over 700. their religion and culture are the original Abrahamic shoot, pre-dating Hebrew. To prevent extinction, girls are forbidden to marry an infidel, boys allowed to wed a Jew or recently Christian of Muslim if the wife and offspring convert, which even caused dozens of Ukrainian mail order-like brides. The hard to impose rules punish apostasy up to expulsion or in theory stoning, yet a shunned old men joining their Passover, the main festival, may be embraced again. Survival remains a question mark. .
Episode 2 • Jul 31, 2016
De Mandeeërs
In Iranian city Ahvaz, among the world's most polluted, Kefah Allush meets the small remaining community of Mandaeans, whose small religion claims the heritage of John the Baptist, apparently originating from the Holy land, but not Christian. Only a few thousand remain, dwindling further by emigration to the West (especially Texas), as the Islamic Republic discriminates non-Muslims, practically limiting their professional options to goldsmith. Over the centuries, the suffered much discrimination, even violent persecutions, so especially those (mainly seniors) wanting to stay are discrete, shy, all but outspoken. Their language, a form of Aramaic, survives almost only in choir songs. Intermarriage means exclusion, but few potential partners remains, so only some ten couples wed a year. Rituals are performed by priest in 'mandi' temples and rivers, as the main is repeated baptism, not just as initiation but also at festivals (main being the Baptist's birthday and his baptism) and when faithful feel a need for it. .
Episode 3 • Aug 07, 2016
De Kopten
The Copts continue traditions of the Christian ages of (Roman and Byzantine) Egypt, which is now mostly Muslim. Kefah Allush first visits a wealthy Coptic businessman's Alexandria palace, yet hears he sent his children safely abroad since the Arab Spring's Tahir revolution. Egyptian authorities in principle protect the Christian minority, MPs even attend the Coptic Christmas, yet Muslim Brotherhood extremist even brave police and military protections to violently attack the Coptic churches, which bravely and stubbornly keep filling up, the threat even binds the community tighter. Many Coptic families live in ghetto squalor, stuck in dead-end jobs like garbage collection.
Episode 4 • Aug 14, 2016
De Druzen
Kefah Allush visits the largest Druze community in a mountainous region of Lebanon. They are quite aloof, having suffered Christian and Muslim persecutions. Their very faith is a mystic secret, apart from some main elements and the guiding value of the Quran, only known to about a quarter of their population, the 'initiated', who live under strict, almost monastic rules, the majority is extremely liberal and well-integrated, especially on good terms with Islam, posing as a 'branch of it', but have no problem with marrying outsiders. Kefah Allush attends a funeral, which sounds very Muslim-like, and attends an audition of the 'prince' of the wealthy Jumblatt family, which dominates their political representation in the compartmentalized Lebanese system.
Episode 5 • Aug 21, 2016
De Bedoeïenen
Episode 6 • Aug 28, 2016
De Jezidi's
Dutch Palestinian journalist Kefah Allush meets an religious minority he never heard off before ISIS persecuted them. The Kurdic-language Yazidi or Yezidi people practice a monotheistic syncretism of mainly Judeo-christian, Muslim and Zoroastric (Ancient Persian dualistic) elements, erroneously dubbed 'devil worshipers' on account of it protector angels mythology. They live mainly in the sacred Sanjar mountains and other villages among Arab Syria. Its pirs (religious leaders) supposedly perform magical healing and maintain a lot of secrecy, contributing to mistrust from others, and over 70 historical pogroms.
Comments
Welcome to juqing comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Login to display more comments

This week's popular movies

El provincial

0
No rating

American Umpire

6.8
Generally favorable

The Tragedy of Carpatho-Ukraine

0
No rating

Entre Ilhas

7.7
Generally favorable

Ferret Town

0
No rating

Cuban Missile Crisis: Secret Subs

6.6
Generally favorable

Autant en emporte l'histoire - La vie privée d'Hitler et d'Eva Braun

0
No rating

Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse

0
No rating

Mark Twain: Adventures in the Holy Land

0
No rating

Heart of the Dragon: The Welsh Guards Story

0
No rating

This week's popular TV shows

The Celts

8
Generally favorable

Stalingrad

8.2
Generally favorable

Grænseland

8.2
Generally favorable

Secrets of the Dead

7.9
Generally favorable

Secret Vatican Files: The Pope and the Devil

6.1
Generally favorable

Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire

7.7
Generally favorable

Dunkirk

7.2
Generally favorable

The Great War

7.1
Generally favorable

Air Warriors

7.5
Generally favorable

U kraya bezdny

9.4
Universal Acclaim

Edit Focus

A pártfogolt

A pártfogolt

  • Movies
The Contender

The Contender

Two chefs from West Virginia vie to become the first Americans to take the podium at the prestigious Bocuse d'Or.

  • Movies
Is She or Isn't He?

Is She or Isn't He?

The intimate story of a self-proclaimed 'fat hairy woman with a penis' and her 5-year search to find love and acceptance. Growing up as a small town boy who seems more like a girl, Graham is an outsider. He can see only one solution - to change his gender. Graham decides to become Ashleigh. She insists she is heterosexual and a virgin. But just as Ashleigh starts to really change her appearance, she also reveals an inner conflict and confusion about what she's really doing. Ashleigh dreads being identified as transgender and wants desperately to be accepted as normal. Ultimately she hopes that becoming a woman will make her just that - normal.

  • Movies
An African Election

An African Election

An African Election is a political documentary that exposes the never-before-seen, nitty-gritty of political electioneering in Africa. It captures the intrigues of political campaigns; the almost carnival like atmosphere that is laced with fear of the unknown and the danger that lurks behind-the-scenes.

  • Movies
Gridiron Girls

Gridiron Girls

Explore the lives both on and off the football field as a group of working women, devoted wives and committed mothers band together to play a game they've always been told they can't. Most women dread football, these women live for it.

  • Movies
A propósito de Buenos Aires

A propósito de Buenos Aires

From the port of Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires, the city like a desert where no one can expect mercy or help from anyone. Black and sound ships. Orchestral trains. Abandoned children. Illuminated signs of methylene blue. Theater lobbies. Extensive avenues. Narrow straight streets Late studies. Aerial collisions. Chimneys without smoke. Identical letters. Sneaky encounters. Prefabricated marshes Leganese beds. Forbidden islands. Almost a million books. Stone angels Allegorical stones. Porteño songwriters in body and soul. Tricks. Holds. Scams Black and white images of a dead Buenos Aires.

  • Movies
All Filters