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The book “Reel Bad Arabs,” published in 2001 by Jack Shaheen, analyzed the way Arab people are portrayed in 900…

"Al-Shawq," a movie by Egyptian director Khaled al-Hagar, won the Golden Pyramid at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival which…

Piran Pirano, directed by Goran Vojovic, is the Slovenian feature film entered into the International Competition at the Cairo International…

Yesterday saw the launch of Sam Flores’ latest art exhibition--The Weight: A Golden Soul

Two young Egyptian authors have made the shortlist for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as…

Winner of many awards including Best Arab Film at 2009’s Damascus Film Festival, the Syrian film “Once Again” is the…

The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the…

The Digital Cinema category in the Cairo International Film Festival is one not readily recognized by your average film-goer, and…

If there’s one trait that best characterizes Gulf cinema, it’s an undying love for all things melodramatic--and the Bahraini film…

Christian Andersen works 14 hours a day on his farm in Regstrup village, Denmark. Every morning, he eats breakfast with…