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Go topThe star of “Ajami,” Israel’s latest Oscar-nominated film, comes to work in a white T-shirt and track suit, his hair freshly gelled, his near future holding the prospect of a trip to Los Angeles. But Shahir Kabaha is not arriving on a set to rehearse lines; he’s pulling into his father’s bakery in downtown Jaffa, … Continued
After taking 2nd place on the reality TV show competition “Project Runway”, Rami Kashou and his definitive designs were catapulted into the mainstream. After the show’s end in 2007, Rami launched a global clothing line. Now, his fashions are found all over the world’s top runways as well as in the closet of celebrities such … Continued
With an already extensive selection of nearly 40 Arabic channels and thousands of hours of on-demand videos, Talfazat expands its content menu by offering Addounia TV to viewers on both the PC and TV Platform. Broadcasting live from Syria, Addounia TV is a popular general entertainment channel with scores of top drama series and talk … Continued
Najla Said’s “Palestine,” a one-woman Off Broadway show that began previews on Saturday, is a coming-of-age story about Ms. Said’s journey to become an Arab-American on her own terms. The daughter of Edward W. Said, the Columbia University professor who until his death in 2003 was the most prominent advocate in this country for the … Continued
Was it modern jazz? Or the soundtrack to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad? The undulating melody issuing – however haltingly – yesterday afternoon from the 15 teens in the Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble was unmistakable. Even familiar. It was the snake charmers’ melody familiar from old action movies. Snake charmers? Sinbad? And a jazz … Continued
In a major initiative at increasing the Arabic content on the Internet, Qatar intends to develop digital archives of significant Arabic texts for online distribution by 2015, ictQATAR secretary general Hessa al-Jaber has said. “In addition, we will be offering a grant program to individuals and organisations that develop digital media in Arabic,” she said … Continued
Arab filmmakers continue to make waves around the world, with the Iraqi Mohamed al Daradji and Arab-Bosnian Zeina Durra both enjoying warm receptions for their films, Son Of Babylon and The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, which ended on Sunday. It isn’t only filmmakers from the region who are … Continued
Hitting US theaters today is Ajami, Israel’s contender at this year’s Academy Awards, which has also been garnering praise at Cannes and other international film festivals. The vast, multi-language epic of family feuds, police detectives and Bedouin revenge squads – in Arabic and Hebrew – portrays the grim realities of life in the Arab-Jewish city … Continued
The Israeli-Arab film “Ajami” was announced as one of the five nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar on Tuesday. It was directed by Scandar Copti, an Israeli-Palestinian Christian, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew. Filmed in the highly polarized city of Jaffa, “Ajami” focuses on the conflicts and alliances amongst Israeli Arabs and … Continued
Music is the key not only to understanding various ways of cultural expression and social communication, but also to comprehend peoples’ views of their identities and heritages. In her book, Philosophy in a New Key (1942), the American philosopher, Susanne Langer, states that music is a highly articulated mode of expression symbolizing intuitive acquaintance of … Continued
In the heart of New York and on some of the most prominent movie theatres “AMC”, “LOEW’S” and “SVA” the movie “Welad ElAm” or “Cousins” will première. This much anticipated event takes place on multiple locations nation-wide on January 29th, 2010 in the presence of the stars “Karim Abdel Aziz”, and “Sherif Mounir” and “Hesham … Continued
Luxor is set to become one of the world’s largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the “Sphinx Alley” is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday. The project to restore the two-mile (three-kilometer) alley that links the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank … Continued
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