Terrorism and the Kebab
24 September '12
By Malu Halasa Safar's Writer in Residence In the 1993 film, Terrorism and the Kebab, building and architecture are more than just backdrops. T...
Captain Abu Raed
23 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Through the artful cinematography of Reinhardt Peschke, Amman appears as one of the great cities o...
Stray Bullet
22 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence After a 15-year-long civil war, one way Lebanese artists reflected on the experience was the use o...
Safar: The Friday Forum, Part Three
21 September '12
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema (21-27 September 2012) kicks off with a discussion forum with internationally renowned experts, industry figures and academics. Session: ARAB CINEMA — IN PRACTICE Speakers: Hussein Fahmy, Egyptian screen icon and star of Watch Out for Zouzou (1971) Philippe Aractingi, Lebanese film director of Bosta (2005) and Under the […]
Watch out for Zouzou
21 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Just like today’s pressures on young men and women in the Middle East to conform to an accep...
Alexandra, Why?
19 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Alexandra, Why? (Iskanderiya... leh?) won the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the 1978 Berlin Fi...
Bosta
19 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence Few Arab musicals have ever attempted to tread the ground of Bosta, a film about the aftermath of ...
Capturing the Changing Face of Middle Eastern Experience
18 September '12
By Malu Halasa, Safar’s Writer in Residence These nine Middle Eastern feature films, from 1960 to 2010, have come to represent pivotal transit...
Ali Ferzat in his own words
03 June '12
IN HIS OWN WORDS Ali Ferzat on Art, Censorship, freedom and the revolution in Syria. I think I was five when I started drawing cartoons and making up satirical stories about what was taking place in my own house. I didn’t choose to be a caricaturist. I was born like this. When I was twelve […]
Mohamed at Eton, A film by Shehani Fernando
03 April '12
Al Jazeera English Presents: WITNESS: MOHAMED AT ETON In September 2010, 16-year-old Palestinian refugee Mohamad Fahed arrives at London’s Heathrow airport and is taken to Britain’s most prestigious private school, Eton College. Here, thanks to an all-expenses paid scholarship, he will spend the next two years, adopting the mantle of a public schoolboy in an […]