By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:50am EST (Reuters) – When director John Slattery first visited Morocco, the familiarity was jarring – and as removed from the images of an exotic Orient conjured up by Hollywood as possible. That […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:50am EST (Reuters) – When Universal Studios took a disliking to the script for Ziad Doueiri’s Israeli-Palestinian suicide bombing drama, the Lebanese director thought his career was over. Six years later “The Attack” […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:36pm EST (Reuters) – A film about one of thousands of Koranic schools for girls in Syria has shocked some Syrians but impressed others with the implication that one of the bastions of […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:24pm EST (Reuters) – When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:23pm EST (Reuters) – The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32am EST Dec 12 (Reuters) – Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence […]