Arab Labor : the complete first season

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Label

Arab Labor : the complete first season

Title remainder

the complete first season

Statement of responsibility

Keshet ; Link TV ; Alive Mind ; executive producer, Daniel Paran ; writer, Sayed Kashua ; directors, Roni Ninio, Yaakov (Yankul) Goldwasser

Title variation

• ʻAvodah ʻArvit
• Shughl ʻArab

Creator

• ʻAvodah ʻArvit (Television program), Season 1.

Contributor

• Ninio, Ron
• Alive Mind Media
• Dori Media Paran Ltd
• Keshet Broadcasting
• Link TV
• Lorber HT Digital
• Awad, Mira, 1975-
• Dau, Salim
• Eisman, Roni
• Goldwasser, Yaakov, 1950-
• Idelman, Mariano, 1974-
• Issa, Norman
• Khoury, Clara
• Paran, Daniel
• Qashu, Sayed, 1975-

Actor

• Idelman, Mariano, 1974-
• Khoury, Clara
• Awad, Mira, 1975-
• Dau, Salim
• Issa, Norman

Creator

• Paran, Daniel

Director

• Ninio, Ron
• Goldwasser, Yaakov, 1950-

Screenwriter

• Qashu, Sayed, 1975-

Subject

• Palestinian Arabs in motion pictures
• Situation comedies (Television programs)
• Television comedies
• Television programs -- Israel
• Arabs on television
• Comedy television programs
• Foreign language television programs -- Hebrew
• Israeli wit and humor
• Jewish-Arab relations -- Drama
• Jews on television
• Palestinian Arabs -- Israel -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy television programs
• Drama
• Foreign language television programs
• Situation comedies (Television programs)
• Jews on television
• Television comedies
• Television programs
• Arabs on television

Language

• heb
• ara
• eng
• heb
• ara
• heb

Summary

In Fall 2008, Link TV presented the U.S. broadcast premiere of the controversial hit Israeli comedy series Arab Labor (Avoda Aravit). Created by Sayed Kashua, a 32-year-old Israeli-born Palestinian journalist, Arab Labor (translated from the Hebrew "Avoda Aravit" which colloquially implies "shoddy or second-rate work") focuses on Amjad, a Palestinian journalist and Israeli citizen in search of his identity as he seeks high status in the society into which he was born but where his car is searched everyday when he drives from his neighborhood to his job at a newspaper in Jerusalem. Poking fun at the cultural divide, Kashua and his characters play on religious, cultural and political differences to daringly depict the mixed society that is Israel. This show marked a milestone on Israeli television as the first program to present Palestinian characters speaking Arabic on primetime. Arab Labor has generated great controversy between Arab and Israeli media and Link TV is premiering the program to the U.S. television audience in order to offer a fresh perspective on Israeli-Palestinian cultural friction while presenting an unbelievably entertaining show that has made an international splash.-- www.linktv.org/arablabor

Cataloging source

IXA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director episodes 1-9, Roni Ninio ; director episodes 10-11, Yaakov (Yankul) Goldwasser ; creators, Daniel Paran, Sayed Kashua, Roni Ninio ; music, DAM ; editor, Roni Eisman

Dewey number

791.45/72

Language note

Hebrew and Arabic with non-optional English subtitles

LC call number

• PN1997.2
• PN1992.77.A96

LC item number

• A96334 2009
• A961 2009

PerformerNote

Norman Issa, Clara Khoury, Salim Daw, Mariano Idelman, Mira Awad

Runtime

300

Target audience

general

Technique

live action