VIENNA, Austria, March 11 (UNHCR) - Johnny Mhanna was only eight years old when his Aunt took him to the theatre in Damascus in 1999. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion for drama and acting.

For more than a decade, Syria’s television industry operated under the weight of crippling sanctions, political isolation and dwindling resources. What was once a regional powerhouse of drama – ...

Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled ...

There are plenty of TV and film production centres in the Middle East, notably Cairo and today’s Dubai. Both have invested millions of dollars to ensure that their facilities are ‘state of the art’ ...