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Claudia Cardinale, born in La Goulette, Tunisia, had her first film role at the age of 20 in Guha (1958), starring Omar Sharif. The film w...

Logan , to open in March - 20th Century Fox     I had actually seen the trailer for Logan in the movie theaters last week, but this sc...

In the very fine documentary Nuh el-Hamam (Wailing of the Doves), 2004, directed by Amir Ramsis, 2006), we learn that the Port Said singer ...

UCLA Prof Gil Hochberg's book, Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone , is out soon (May 2015) from Duke Univers...

Back in March I posted about the film Traitors , which deals with Moroccan women punkers. (And which I have not yet seen. I've since ca...

In the special Summer Movies section of the Arts & Style part of today's New York Times (May 4, 2015), there is an article , "...

Traitors (dir. Sean Gullette) has been on the festival circuit for a couple years. It looks, based on the reviews and the available trai...

I recently learned that the great Egyptian singer and actress Leila Mourad's brother Mounir Mourad was also a prominent showbiz figure ...

Robeson as Jericho, Princess Kouka as Gara I've not yet seen it, a friend (Bob) just recommended it to me. It is supposed to be on...

Iqbal Singh does Elvis. "A Beautiful Baby of Broadway," from the 1960 Hindi film, Ek Phool Char Kaante .

New Yorker Films A review in the New York Times (February 2, 2012) of Straub and Huillet's 1975 film Moses and Aaron reminded me ...

1. Via rupture's Mudd Up!, Sufi Plug Ins . an interdisciplinary project dedicated to exploring non-western & poetic notions of sou...

I saw this film at Georgetown last week and I want to put in a very strong plug for it. It's not been released for the English-speakin...

I'm surprised that none of my more avid movie-watching friends spotted this before me. Kiera Knightley plays Domino, a hard-assed bount...

Atlanta rapper Big Boi, of Outkast, appearing in a preview for the forthcoming documentary from Morgan Spurlock ( Supersize Me ), Pom Wonde...

Lately I've run across a spate of kufiyas that are quite distinct from the hipster, the solidarity or the designer kufiyas. Kufiyas worn...

To my great regret, The Hurt Locker has not yet opened here. Maybe, if NW Arkansas fans of Kathryn Bigelow are lucky, it will open later th...

Here's a trailer for The Time That Remains , the latest film from highly-regarded Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman. It opens in Franc...

Jonathan Olley/Summit Entertainment I'm pretty excited to see this photo of director Kathryn Bigelow, kufiya clad, in the New York Times...

I finally got around to watching this thoroughly enjoyable film last night, and even though its liberal political turns are somewhat hokey a...