Dubai film festival awards go to Zindeeq, Lola
17 Dec 2009: The movie "Zindeeq" (renegade), directed by Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and "Lola" by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza won the first prize of the sixth edition of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin RashidThree Must-Watch Movies during Ramadan
05 Aug 2009: ABU DHABI - There is, perhaps, no better time to start helping the planet we are living on than during Ramadan, a month of holiness, purity and soul-searching. A reminder of what climate change is doing to us and future generations, as well as a rareFirst Hamas-made movie begins Gaza Strip run
04 Aug 2009: The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie's most memorable line. "To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God." "Imad Aqel", which had its premiere on Saturday, is the first feature film produced by the IslamistThe non-profit worker from Bethlehem who was branded a terrorist by Bruno
01 Aug 2009: For a supposed terrorist, Ayman Abu Aita is remarkably easy to find. It takes one phone call to set up a meeting with the man described in the hit movie Brüno as a "terrorist group leader". He sits alone at a long, white table in the gardens of theN'Dour documentary tries to show sweeter side of Islam
29 Jul 2009: YOUSSOU N'DOUR has been fusing African rhythms and Islamic sacred music, personal history, religious history and African history in his music for more than 30 years. His lyrics (he sings in French, Arabic and English) can be political and uplifting,Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival
25 May 2009: Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem when they ordered a Palestinian theatre to close. The week-long festival, supported by the British council and Unesco, has broughtGood night America: Paxman's US show axed after ratings flop
08 Apr 2009: It's been the Golden Goose for combative Brits such as Gordon Ramsay and Simon Cowell, but Jeremy Paxman has discovered, to his cost, that it takes more than a cut-glass accent and dogged questioning to make it big in America. The Newsnight presenter'sAfrica's Eden
04 Apr 2009: I’ve loved the Kalahari since the first time I went to Botswana as a boy. It is a place of boundless space and endless skies which explode at dusk into almost unimaginable splendour. Of all the places I have been in the world from the Arctic Circle toHas love been blood-written by Hadrawi
04 Apr 2009: Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame 'Hadraawi' is considered by many to be the greatest living Somali poet. Born in northern Somalia (the present self-declared Republic of Somaliland) in 1943, he was educated in Aden and went on to a career in teaching in the earlyJewish writer in row over 'tolerant' Iran
30 Mar 2009: A row has broken out over allegations of antisemitism at the New York Times, America's most vaunted name in journalism and a newspaper with a large Jewish readership. The storm centres on a column about Jews in Iran written by New York Times journalistBetter than The Wire?
19 Mar 2009: You've finished The Wire box set? You'd like something else that is just as good as "the greatest show ever in the history of television" (© all Guardian journalists) but you're not quite sure where to go next? How about a series that's as passionate andAfrican film's biggest festival celebrates 40th anniversary
28 Feb 2009: The 40-year-old FESPACO, Africa's biggest film fest, this year is aiming for a touch of glamour and a new momentum to draw in the crowds and money badly needed for Africa's ailing film industry. For this year's 21st edition of the bi-annual Pan-AfricanHow a 13th Century Islamic Poet Conquered America
05 Feb 2009: The best-selling poet in America today could never have known that someday there would be such a thing as America. Born over eight centuries ago in what is now Afghanistan, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic, has traversed some rather astonishingNew Yusuf Islam album
28 Jan 2009: Yusuf Islam -- the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens -- is readying a secular album said to recall his "straightforward troubadour days" in late Spring via Universal, featuring a collection of locally connected artists. Yusuf's yet-untitled set:Lord Mandelson to make call on Evening Standard and Alexander Lebedev
22 Jan 2009: Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, will have to decide whether a former KGB officer is a fit and proper person to own a British newspaper after the Evening Standard was sold to Alexander Lebedev yesterday. The Russian bought the London titleHit soap calls Gaza faithful from evening prayer for a nightly dose of nostalgia
14 Oct 2007: IT IS the Middle East equivalent of Coronation Street. With its tales of brave men and dutiful women in a simpler, long-vanished Middle East, a Syrian soap opera has become the latest craze in the Arab world during Ramadan. Throughout the month, peopleslashnews
Mohamed Ali Samatar: Facing war crimes lawsuit in US
The case has divided courts. A federal judge in Alexandria ruled that even if the immunity law does not mention individuals, such protection is the "practical equivalent" of immunity offered to a state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in
Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
Forty-five years ago on Feb. 21, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — had begun his address to a mass meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City at the Audubon Ballroom when several men opened fire on him with shotguns and
Somali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
Somalia's sports minister has died in a Saudi hospital weeks after he was critically wounded in a bomb attack at a medical graduation ceremony in Mogadishu. Saleban Olad Roble passed away on Friday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he and other victims
Dubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
Dubai will issue arrest warrants for 11 foreign agents suspected of involvement in the the assassination of a top Hamas military commander in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, the police chief said on Monday. "We do not rule out Mossad, but when we
