Tue 09 April 2024: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s battle over their former French winery has intensified with new legal filings. Jolie filed a motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court on April 4 in which she claims that when she attempted to sell Pitt her stake in the Miraval winery, their negotiations ultimately broke […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: This harrowing documentary follows life among starving Palestinians in the Yarmouk camp as Syria’s civil war raged about them Abdallah Al-Khatib’s searing documentary was completed two years ago; its arrival now has an awful new significance. The film conveys the day-by-day, moment-by-moment experience of Palestinians living in the Yarmouk refugee camp in […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: Resistance to Israeli colonialism was the central focus of the Palestinian drama series, “Bleeding Dirt” (“Nazeef Al-Turaab”), set in the post-Oslo Convention era. The series addresses the daily challenges, injustices and human rights violations facing Palestinians under the brutal Zionist occupation. It highlights the resilience, courage and determination of Palestinians in […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: Stories have always conveyed messages to the human subconscious. From the bedtime stories children are taught, to the movies we watch and the novels we read, the art of the story is possibly the most effective tool a propagandist can use. Speeches and the spoken word may impact the mind at […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the X platform is launching a streaming service that would allow users to watch lengthy videos on their smart TV screens, posing a fresh threat to Google-owned YouTube. The company is apparently launching a TV app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, and Musk said […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: American rapper and producer Lil Jon embraced Islam at a mosque in California. Jon on Friday visited the King Fahad Mosque in Los Angeles and publicly announced his conversion to Islam in front of a large congregation. A video shared on social media showed the American rapper reciting the shahada in Arabic and then in […]
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Mon 11 March 2024: “Oppenheimer” swept the board on Sunday at theOscars, Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, with seven awards including best picture and best director, crowning a triumphant year for filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Nolan’s masterful drama about the father of the atomic bomb, half of last summer’s massive “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, also bagged acting […]
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French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop celebrates in Berlin with the Golden Bear for Best Film awarded for the documentary, Dahomey. Sun 25 February 2024: The top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival went to Mati Diop’s Franco-Senegalese documentary Dahomey, which explores the complex issues surrounding Europe’s return of looted treasures to Africa. At a lavish […]
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Taylor Swift with boygenius and Jack Antonoff at the 2024 Mon 05 February 2024: The Grammy Awards, the highest honours in the music industry, were handed out at a ceremony in the United States city of Los Angeles on Sunday. Here is a list of winners: ALBUM OF THE YEAR Midnights, Taylor Swift RECORD […]
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Tue 26 December 2023: For a slew of antisemitic comments he made in 2022, Kanye West offered apologies to “the Jewish community.” In a statement posted in Hebrew on his Instagram account, where he has 18.2m followers, he wrote (as translated by Google): “I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community … It was not my intention […]
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