The Arab world in the 1970s - Episode 1: Politics | Al Jazeera World Documentary

In a two-part series charting the 1970s in the Arab world, we revisit a decade of great change and long-term effects in the Middle East.

The first episode follows the politics of the time: the 1973 Arab-Israeli war; independence for former colonies; how oil transformed the Gulf economies; the toppling of governments by military coups; and the rise and fall of hopes of Arab unity.

These stories of the shifting sands of the 70s are told by many who were there, covering journalism, defence, politics, industry, activism and diplomacy. The second episode will trace cinema and drama in this transformative decade.

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If you'd like to watch our three-part series on the 1960s in the Arab World, you can find them below.


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[adilnaseerofficial]

In an age of sponsored mainstream media, Al-Jazeera has come up with an encompassing, comprehensive, unbiased and informed documentary on Arab world politics.students of IR, pol science, public administration must watch this.

[Sidiqi]

From a Khawager who worked in Arab World from 1975 to 2020, involved in all the Countries forming this video history, I found this production to be as informative as possible in such a ‘pocket’ version. I personally feel that as it covered events on a ‘macro’ scale it managed to avoid bias which would have been extremely difficult to maintain in a more ‘in depth’ analyses. Mubrook!

[haithamalallam]

Libya, Egypt, Saudi, Jordan, Syria, lebenon, IRAQ, the good old days when the west wasn’t in control of the Arab countries.

[INeedJesussure]

Very interesting documentary and relevant guests, I am glad you used subtitles instead of dubbing. shukran Al Jazeera!

[sourovahmed]

Take love all Muslim ummah from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇦🇪🇸🇦

[raanamoola]

Arab world have need discreet strong leadership like Anwar Sadat he was great leader in Arab world.

[DonJuanMarco]

Al Jazeera.
Can you create another documentary about the Arab World in the 80s?
That would be interesting.

[vickomen]

There was great progress in those nations specifically Syria, Iraq Lebanon and Egypt. Too bad it all came crashing down!

[TheStrategos]

Great video Al - Jazeera. Some years ago, you did a series of excellent videos on the assassination of Anwar Sadat in Arabic. Please re - release the videos with subtitles in English for those of us interested in the politics of the Middle East who don’t understand Arabic. Thank you.

[hamid.r.salehi]

Mr. President Anwar Sadat ❤❤❤❤❤ from iranian people

[kieshabrown]

Using this for my history presentation😮‍💨 praise gawd

[heart_invaders]

To me it's not the name of country that matters it's love for Islam and Ummah that Matters.. ♡

[mahmoudlabana]

a documentary focuses on the both side of our history whatever it is positive or negative
thanks

[hemantpurohit]

nice documentary about the conflicts & disturbances in the Arab world in 1970s, the Arab world has a lot of debt & they have failed to manage their debt

[niloofarshahsavand]

Love Egypt from Iran ❤️ Anwar Sadat was a hero ❤️

[calasalos]

This documentary proves that Arab countries can create a mess even without the so called "western intervention"
Hopefully some people watching this will start to grow up and take responsibility for the mistakes made by themselves

[namenotavailable]

Not enough explanation nor background to the Civil War in Lebanon is given here. I realize you're trying to document an entire decade in a brief time frame, but this was a significant chapter. Really, attempting this project with those constraints was a little overambitious. It becomes a Reader's Digest thumbnail sketch instead of thorough educational history.

[Pbtheboys]

These people and government does not know the POWER of UNITY and it's a real embarrassment for them

[pravasrao]

If any country find oil, USA be like- this country need freedom