'The Insult,' Lebanon's first Oscar-nominated film, examines a country's deepest wounds... - 0 views
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The film follows Yasser, a Palestinian construction worker who becomes embroiled in conflict with Toni, a right-wing Lebanese Christian, over a leaking water pipe. When Yasser confronts Toni about his grievances, Toni hurls back an insult that strikes sharply at the heart of the Palestinian struggle. The film examines the many forms our personal truths can take, how they collide, and the consequences of words in a polarized world.
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It could happen like that in Lebanon. You could have a very silly incident that could develop into a national case.
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we were fought because some people thought that we’re opening old wounds, and then all the people felt that, you know, we were defaming the Palestinians. Other people said we were attacking the Christians. Anytime you make a movie that is a bit sensitive — this one is a little bit more than a bit sensitive — people go up in arms. You know, they look at the film and then they immediately start projecting themselves and projecting their prejudices against it
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Hollywood blockbuster "Noah" faces ban in Arab World - News - Aswat Masriya - 0 views
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Three Arab countries have banned the Hollywood film "Noah" on religious grounds even before its worldwide premiere and several others are expected to follow suit
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Islam frowns upon representing holy figures in art and depictions of the Prophet Mohammad in European and North American media have repeatedly sparked deadly protests in Islamic countries over the last decade, fanning cultural tensions with the West. "Censors for Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE (United Arab Emirates) officially confirmed this week that the film will not release in their countries," a representative of Paramount Pictures, which produced the $125 million film starring Oscar-winners Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins, told Reuters
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the studio expected a similar ban in Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait
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'Waltz With Bashir' - Los Angeles Times - 0 views
Headrush - Ed Webb's Dickinson Blog: Waltz With Bashir - 0 views
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I am very excited that the Middle East Studies program has been able to bring Waltz with Bashir to Carlisle. It will play for four nights at the Carlisle Theatre, a cool art deco relic. On the last evening, next Wednesday, I will moderate a panel discussion after the showing. Among the panelists will be someone who was serving in the Israeli army at the time of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon - the events remembered in the film - as well as someone who was protesting the war as a member of Peace Now. How cool is that?
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jewish-Arab crime film captures tensions - 1 views
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Next year, the gritty tale about mafia-style murders will become the first Arabic language film to represent Israel at the Oscars.
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Impoverished Israeli Arabs shooting one another in the shadow of the gleaming towers of Tel Aviv is far from Israel's preferred international image.
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dark underside to the ideal of coexistence sometimes touted in mixed Jewish-Arab areas like Jaffa.
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'Pulp Fiction' studio Miramax is bought by Qatar-based beIN - 0 views
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Miramax, the film studio behind hundreds of hit movies including "Pulp Fiction" and "Chicago," has been sold to the Doha-based beIN Media Group, the companies announced on Wednesday.BeIN, which runs sports networks and movie channels in 24 countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the US, said Miramax would continue to operate as an independent film and television studio under its new owners.
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Miramax's back catalogues of more than 700 movies have won a total of 68 Oscars, including for "The English Patient," "Shakespeare in Love," and "No Country for Old Men".
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BeIN separated from the Al Jazeera Media Network back 31 December 2013 to focus primarily on football matches and other sporting events.
Hit film's kiss gets Arab-Israeli teacher fired - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East - 0 views
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“The mayor faces many problems with the opposition in Baqa al-Gharbiyye,” Muasi said. “Despite being secular himself, he needs the support of this Salafist group to bolster his coalition. And this is done at my expense. He simply sacrificed me as a teacher to serve his own political interests.”
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Despite having negligible political weight, radical Islamic groups like the Hedaya movement in Baqa al-Gharbiyye are central to the current political struggles within Arab society. Local leaders keep them politically on their side, apparently because they don’t know when and if they might need their support.
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“In the past three years we have seen at least 20 cases whereby artists or institutions came under attack by groups alleging to be Islam’s bona fide representatives,” Muasi said. “These are groups from Salafist Islam, far removed from the mainstream. Their people are trying to impose their worldview on an entire society and even on other Islamic movements that are more moderate than they are.”
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Note here that the teacher is being punished at the behest of a tiny group advocating views not shared by most in their community. But the mayor may rely on their political support at some point, so the teacher and his students suffer. The film is excellent, by the way: Omar was part of the Middle East Film Series at Dickinson in fall 2015.
Iranian woman's death galvanises critics of 'morality police' - Al-Monitor: Independent... - 3 views
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As Iran reels from a woman's death after her arrest by its "morality police", the Sunday front page of financial newspaper Asia declared: "Dear Mahsa, your name will become a symbol."
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growing criticism in recent months over its excessive use of force
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The day after her funeral, nearly all Iranian press dedicated their front pages to her story on Sunday.
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"We are looking at the biggest reconstruction story since World War II" | EBU - 0 views
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A news organization’s climate journalism should be as all-pervasive as the consequences of the climate crisis itself are. It should be completely normal to have a paragraph on climate impacts in, let’s say, a sports story or a story about company earnings.
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There is not a single area of journalism that will not be transformed either directly by climate impacts or by humanity's efforts to mitigate climate change or adapt to it.
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First, free climate journalism from its organizational silo and make it all-pervasive. Second, localize it and bring it into the here and now as much as possible. Third, put it into context.
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