Where to get Hollywood movies in Arabic?
August 16, 2009 11:21 AM   Subscribe

Does anyone know of a company or publisher (ideally in the UK) that sells versions of modern Hollywood movies that have been dubbed into Arabic?

I have tried all the variations of search terms in Google I can think of and thus far have only been able to find the occasional website selling Arabic versions of Finding Nemo and other Disney/Pixar type movies. Ideally I'd like to find something more adult like LOST or 24 in Arabic, or movies such as The International, X-Men Origins and so on. As I said, it would ideally be a firm in the UK, though I would happily compromise if someone was able to find a firm in the Middle East that would post to the UK.
posted by Biru to Media & Arts (1 answer total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
You won't find anything, simply because regular American movies don't get dubbed in Arabic, they get subtitled. (Same for TV shows.) The only American movies you'll find dubbed in Arabic are, as you mentioned, kids' movies.

So if you want to practice your Arabic by watching movies, I'd recommend you download or buy Arabic-dubbed Pixar/Disney movies (you can find some of them on Youtube if you do a search in Arabic), or do the same with actual Arabic movies.

FineArt Film is based in the UK, and they sell plenty of Arabic DVDs. I'd avoid the more recent comedies, which tend to be stupid (especially anything with Mohamed Saad), and look into older movies, with actors like Adel Imam (his older stuff, anyway), Faten Hamama, Soad Hosni, Roshdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Ahmed Zaki, and Abdel Moneim Madbouli. As for directors, you might look for Salah Abu Seif, Henry Barakat, and Youssef Chahine's movies.

(Of course, all these movies are in colloquial Arabic, so if you want to practice standard Arabic, try Al Jazeera's live stream or YouTube channel.)
posted by gg at 12:26 PM on August 16, 2009 [1 favorite]


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