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?

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

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

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

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

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

The Drift traces the shifting economies of objects in contemporary Lebanon. The film moves between t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/anne...

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced por...

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

Historian Tom Holland traces the origins of Isis’ barbaric and sadistic violence which it claims is ...

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

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

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

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