Any major film addressing the Israel-Palestine conflict can expect to court a measure of controversy, but American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s intervention is unlikely to cause much consternation among a mainstream cinema audience. Speaking at the premiere of his latest film, Miral, at the Venice Film Festival, he proclaimed that “coming from my background, … Continued
Yaser Al Saghrji is emotional about his work. He grew up in his uncle’s shop amid piles of bright, textured kilims and carpets in Damascus’ ancient souks. Then the focus was on carpets and those rich enough to afford them. Dealers didn’t know much about kilims or take them seriously. “Not a single complete kilim … Continued
FIFA broke new ground by awarding Russia and Qatar the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Thursday, choosing first-time hosts over the more conventional choices of England and the United States. The winning bids were announced by FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter, after the voting concluded by FIFA’s executive committee in Zurich. Russia beat out bids … Continued
A national short film contest and Arab-themed features from around the world highlight the sixth edition of the Arab Film Festival Friday through Sunday at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. “There is an immense amount of energy in the film industry in Arab world countries right now,” says Kim Silarski, the museum’s communications … Continued
The Cairo International Film Festival opens this week amid soaring film theft, dwindling viewer interest Egypt’s film industry, which once had a stranglehold on the Arab world’s silver screens, is suffering a bloody nose as viewers shun cinemas and watch their films on pirated DVDs or downloaded from the Internet. Once a booming source of … Continued
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed the WikiLeaks revelations of Arab hostility to Iran as worthless “psychological warfare”. But the idea that 250,000-plus pages of classified US documents actually shed any new light on Middle Eastern realities has also been widely dismissed by many Arabs or simply ignored by their governments. In Riyadh, where King Abdullah was … Continued
The layers of colonization in Palestine run as deep as the layers of the country’s mythologized and distorted history. This emanates from many sources and continues to be perpetuated by academics whose methodologies maintain this phenomenon. This is one of the important and underlying theses of Basem Ra’ad’s new book Hidden Histories: Palestine and the … Continued
Congressman-elect Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, scored more international publicity after this month’s election, lauded by the Arab American Institute for increasing their caucus. His election, along with that of Rep.-elect Richard Hanna, a New York Republican, brings the number of Arab Americans in Congress to five, which the institute’s blog at aaiusa.org, observes is the … Continued
WHO DESERVES to be bullied? Forgotten in this recent cycle of events is an alarming epidemic of school bullying directed at Arab-American, American Muslim and Southeast Asian students. They have had to endure such verbal abuse as: “You terrorist.” “People can’t get jobs because of you.” “You blow up buildings.” “You are Muslim, you should … Continued
Gregory Orfalea believes if Americans understood more about Arab history and culture, the United States might not be in the political situation it is internationally. “We have to make up a lot of time lost in this country: history we have not taught our young, and the uncritical political alignments we’ve made,” said Orfalea, who … Continued
Egyptian comedy promoter Maha Hosny is driving through the traffic-clogged streets of Cairo while talking to CNN on her cell phone, when there’s a terrifying screech of tires and the line goes dead. Thankfully, she’s unscathed, and within minutes is once again talking about her pioneering work bringing stand-up comedy to new Egyptian audiences — … Continued
Education, conservation, environmental protection, preserving heritage, and the embrace of progress: they were core values embodied by the late Sheikh Zayed in life, and will be celebrated when the Zayed National Museum opens on Saadiyat Island in 2014. Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler … Continued
4,787 Results (Page 252 of 399)
Loading ...