Re: [Videolib] Western Asian Films

[Brigid Duffy]

From Wikipedia:

Western Asia, West Asia, Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia are terms  
that describe the westernmostportion of Asia. The terms are partly  
coterminous with the Middle East, which describes a geographical  
position in relation to Western Europe rather than its location within  
Asia. Due to this perceived Eurocentrism, international organizations  
such as the United Nations,[1] have replaced Middle East and Near East  
with Western Asia. This region and Europe are collectively referred to  
as Western Eurasia.

The countries and territories in the UN Subregion of Western Asia,[10]  
listed below:
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png>> Armenia
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png>> Azerbaijan
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png>> Bahrain
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png>> Cyprus
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png>> Georgia
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png>> Iraq
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png>> Israel
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png>> Jordan
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Kuwait.svg.png>> Kuwait
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Lebanon.svg.png>> Lebanon
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png>> Oman
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png>> Palestine
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png>> Qatar
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png>> Saudi Arabia
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png>> Syria
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png>> Turkey
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png>> United Arab Emirates
        • <<inline: 22px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png>> Yemen



Brigid Duffy
Academic Technology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA  94132-4200
E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu



On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:40 AM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote:

Wow!  I've heard the ME referred to as part of The Orient...but  
Western
Asia is a totally new one to me.  Sorta smells of colonialism/ 
orientalism
to me...

g





Western Asia?  What's Western Asia?
That's California, isn't it?

Har! Perhaps it's California, too, but in LC catalog-speak, Western  
Asia
is approximately what is often referred to as the Middle East, maybe
running a little further north than our usual conversational  
references to
the Middle East.



Mike Tribby
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses

mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com


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VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues 
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective 
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.