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An open letter to the Toronto International Film Festival

If you want to be notified the next time we publish something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight [...]

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2009 09 12 Haitham Sabbah Art
Asides
Boycott
Grassroots Activism
Israel
Media
Palestine
War Crimes
Zionism Comments (5)

Planet of The Arabs!

Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2005
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired by the book "Reel Bad Arabs" by Dr. Jack Shaheen.
Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and [...]

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2006 10 08 Haitham Sabbah Arab
Media
Middle East
Racism
USA Comments (25)

The 'Wall of Hate' team to produce a film on Lebanon

This movie is about the wall of hate that "Israel" created to isolate the real people off their land; the Palestinian people…
You can find more about the film from The Wall of Hate web site, here…
Now, Chromovision is planning the production of a new documentary film to highlight the atrocities that have been and are [...]

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2006 07 22 Haitham Sabbah Culture
Lebanon
Media
Palestine
Videos
War
War Crimes Comments (21)

Iraq: The Women's Story

The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story.
By Zeena Ahmed
This Channel4 Dispatches film provides a compelling account of life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on news bulletins: [...]

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2006 06 02 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Human Rights
Iraq
Media
War Comments (49)

Paradise Now, Wins!

They say: "If you made a bad film, you made it alone. If you made a good film, you all made it." And that's what "Paradise now" did. A good film by all means!
The film didn't win the Oscar, but won more than the academy award. Won the hearts of the millions who saw [...]

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2006 03 06 Haitham Sabbah Arab
Art
Good News
Media
Middle East
Palestine Comments (20)

Israel lobbies against "Palestine" tag at Oscars

Israeli and U.S. diplomats and Jewish groups are lobbying organisers of next month's Academy Awards not to present a nominated film (Paradise Now) about Palestinian bombers as coming from Palestine, an Israeli newspaper reports.
While the tag remains on the academy's Web site, the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he expected the film to [...]

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2006 02 13 Haitham Sabbah Art
Culture
Failures
Human Rights
Israel
Media
Palestine
Peace
Politics Comments (24)

Iran 'crackdown on foreign films'

Iran's authorities have banned imported films promoting secularism, feminism, unethical behaviour, drug abuse, violence or alcoholism. In other words, everything!

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2005 10 22 Haitham Sabbah Failures
Human Rights
Media Comments (0)

Paradise Now @ The 43rd New York Film Festival

Paradise Now is the story of two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a major operation in Tel Aviv. It centers on what is presumably their final day on earth. They cannot utter a word of their plans to their families. The following day, the two are sent to the border. The bombs [...]

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2005 10 20 Haitham Sabbah Art
Culture
Good News
Media
Palestine
Sabbah Comments (10)

The Embassy is in the Building

Albawaba reports that Egyptian Parliament members decided to permit the screening of the film "Al Safara Fil Amara" (The Embassy in the Building), starring comedian actor Adel Imam, despite a request by the Israeli Ambassador to Egypt to ban the film.
Good for themQ! But what is the story? Why did the Ambassador ask to ban [...]

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2005 08 07 Haitham Sabbah Art
Egypt
Politics Comments (4)