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---- Movie Review----

Children's Movies In The Arab Cinema
Children in the Arab world are increasingly gaining more attention, although much remains to be done for them in this part of the world. By way of making the best of what is available, one may turn to the cinema to explore the realities and possibilities of works addressed to an audience of the little ones.

---- Art----

Music, The Poetry Of The Soul
According to Paul Henry Lang, people normally conceive of "drama" as external action, i.e., events or acts in the context of conflict between individual characters. But a more accurate meaning is the internal drama, i.e., the conflict between clashing motives within the same individual. Dramatic poetry may only communicate the outcome of such a conflict by personifying action. But music can represent the very essence of the conflicting forces and motives. It provides the listeners with a real drama that is free of the material, the visible and the concrete.

---- Theatre----

Iranian Theater Propagates Shiism
The roots of modern theater in Iran go back to the mid Safavid era when comic plays were performed to mimic rural simpletons and eccentrics in the Persian society. Gradually, the plays were packed with simple and episodic plots and tended to focus on characters that could be found in real life in the society.

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