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?

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

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

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

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

Letter from Beirut documents the filmmaker's return to Beirut during one of the lulls, three years a...

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

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban imag...

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

As the Syrian war continues to leave entire generations without education, health care, or a state, ...

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

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

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her...

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

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

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

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


As the crucial question arises of the future succession of the Dalai Lama, we take a look back at th...

China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he...