It’s really an honor for us to take part in this year’s Bitfilm Festival, which will take part in Hamburg and Tel Aviv to recognize and reward the best digital films in various categories. In the past two years we …
Posted in Creativity, Events, Film, Media, Middle East, Videos | 3 CommentsYesterday I, with the incredible support of Esra’a and Mideast Youth (MEY), helped launch FindingBibi.com, a place for you to submit and vote on a women’s empowerment project that, in turn, will be transformed from a great idea to a …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Culture, Film, Media, Society, Women | 1 CommentI had the pleasure of interviewing Bita Haidarian, an Iranian American film maker concerning her wonderful latest film, Finding Bibi, described below: Bita Haidarian, an award-winning Iranian American filmmaker fresh out of film school, sets off on a journey around …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Creativity, Film, Interviews, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, Podcasts, USA, Women | 2 CommentsThat homosexuality is an illegal and (harshly!) punishable act in almost all Muslim-majority countries is an established fact, and a change in legislation anytime in the foreseeable future is as possible as a cow jumping over the moon. But even …
Posted in Culture, Film, Homosexuality, Islam, USA, Videos | 3 CommentsAll Mustafa an Egyptian American Muslim widower ever wanted to do was live the “American Dream.” And, maybe pay off some family debts, turn his small New Jersey falafel shop into a fancy restaurant, raise his two motherless children as …
Posted in Arab Americans, Film, Islam, USA | Tagged AmericanEast, Arabs, DVD, Hollywood movies, Muslims, post sept. 11, Ray Hanania | 1 CommentInterview by: Kourosh Ziabari, Ahmadreza Tavassoli Cinema Verite International Documentary Film Festival which was held in Iran on the third week of October 2008 was undoubtedly an occasional and magnificent opportunity for documentary filmmakers from 75 countries worldwide to congregate …
Posted in Art, Culture, Events, Film, Interviews, Iran, USA | Tagged American filmmaker, American movie consultant, Cinema Verite, Film festival, Interview, Shannon Kelley | 1 CommentI watched Oliver Stone’s latest movie. It talks about the rise of George W.Bush JR, it is the first movie about still acting president in the White House. It is not the best of Mr. Stone’s movies but it is …
Posted in Entertainment, Film, Iraq, USA, War | 5 CommentsThese days, IRIB is broadcasting a movie serial about Joseph (Yusuf), called “Joseph, the Prophet”. It’s the story of Joseph, a man who is known as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Many have also tried to find him …
Posted in Film, Gender, History, Interfaith, Islam, Philosophy, Religion, Romance | 18 CommentsReinventing HOLLYWOOD Hollywood may no longer be the shining star According to The journalist and author Pascal Zachary: “We are all Americans now, like it or not”. It is true that the spread of American media, including TV, film and …
Posted in Film, Media, Society, USA | 1 CommentBaghdad-born filmmaker Joe Balass alerted us that Baghdad Twist, his documentary film on Iraqi Jews, will be screened in the following locations and times: DocuWeek showcase in Los Angeles (Aug. 22-28, 2008) where it will be playing for 7 days …
Posted in Arab Jews, Awareness, Film, Iraq | 2 Comments