At a small community centre in the heart of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, Syrian theatre director Bassem watches on proudly as a group of young refugees and locals act out emotional scenes of ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Angels Studios has set a limited theatrical release on Dec. 25 with January expansion for Brandt Andersen’s feature drama The Strangers’ Case. The title, which made its world premiere at ...

EXCLUSIVE: Anas Khalaf and Rana Kazkaz's Mare Nostrum and The Translator count among the rare fiction works made by Syrian directors tackling the 2011 democracy protests and President Bashar ...

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’ ...

Amid the familiar bustle of daily life in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp, something out of the ordinary is taking place in a dusty yard outside one of the many thousands of shelters. A dozen or so ...

Iran will meet pre-tournament favourites Japan in the Asian Cup quarter-finals after surviving extra time with 10 men before defeating Syria 5-3 on penalties on Wednesday. Skipper Ehsan Hajsafi scored ...

German director Tom Tykwer will open the Berlin film festival Thursday with a drama about a Syrian housekeeper, in the midst of a national election campaign that has been dominated by a bitter ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had ...

EXCLUSIVE: Angels Studios has set a limited theatrical release on Dec. 25 with January expansion for Brandt Andersen’s feature drama The Strangers’ Case. The title, which made its world premiere at ...

EXCLUSIVE: Anas Khalaf and Rana Kazkaz’s Mare Nostrum and The Translator count among the rare fiction works made by Syrian directors tackling the 2011 democracy protests and President Bashar ...

German director Tom Tykwer said Thursday that his latest movie about a Syrian immigrant aimed to encourage people to stop "isolating" themselves, as it opened Berlin's international film festival.