The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries as the Lebanese people curse corruption, nepotism, gross economic mismanagement and squandering of resources. How did the Land of Cedars, a country with so much to offer, allow itself to get into such a dire situation? And will it be able to bounce back?

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and bec...

In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the count...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and a side of politics are on the menu. Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - t...

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Thre...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in t...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one...

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...