Category: Entertainment

Sun 29 March 2020: Netflix series Messiah, a political-religious thriller which courted controversy across the Middle East among Muslim viewers, has been canceled after just one season due to difficulties filming amid the global coronavirus crisis, actor Tomer Sisley announced on his Instagram page. “I am sorry for all the Messiah fans over the world. […]

Tue 11 February 2020: The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt alliance have taken a new scandalous step targeting popular Turkish dramas aired in the Middle East. In Egypt, the official and biggest fatwa organ of the country, the “High Fatwa Council” (Dâru’l-İftâ), published a statement that accuses Turkey of trying to create an “area of […]

Sat 08 February 2020: A female Syrian doctor who ran an underground hospital in a besieged rebel stronghold says she hopes an Oscar-nominated documentary showing her work will encourage other women and girls to demand equal treatment with men. Amani Ballour, 32, is seen facing bombardments and shortages of food and medicine while also challenging […]

The prestigious best director category has only gone to a woman once: to American Kathryn Bigelow in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker”. No woman has been nominated this year. Wed 05 February 2020: Since the first Oscars were awarded more than 90 years ago, there have been by far fewer women winners in all categories […]

Wed 15 January 2020: A new Muslim character is slated to join Marvel’s universe of comic books, adding yet another diverse personality to its long list of superheroes. The new superhero donning a bright blue look will be introduced in the latest edition of “Magnificent Ms. Marvel #13.” “Amulet,” described as fun and mysterious by […]

Wed 15 January 2020: Two gritty documentaries covering the war in Syria were announced as Academy Awards nominees – better known as the Oscars – on Monday, the latest accolade for the Syrian film-makers. For Sama and The Cave were named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – widely considered the film industry’s biggest prize – as […]

Tue 14 January 2020: Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash “Joker” topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, while Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and Sam Mendes’ World War I tale “1917” all trailed […]

Wed 08 January 2019: A top Bollywood actress is being praised for visiting an elite Indian university where students were protesting against an attack on them by masked suspects with alleged links to a student group backed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Deepika Padukone, 34, on Tuesday visited New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University […]