CANNES, France (Reuters) - The "Arab Spring" is the focus of two movies at Cannes this year as film makers present tentative steps towards democracy on the big screen, one year after political upheaval in Libya and Egypt. full story ![]()
CNN's Leone Lakhani looks at how tourism has changed post-Arab Spring in the Middle East.
cnn.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
The Middle East's tourism sector is expected to triple its growth rates over the next few years despite the Arab Spring.
cnn.com (1 month and 2 days ago)
The “Arab Spring” – as well as summer and fall – were discussed by Middle East scholar Daniel Serwer, Ph.D., in his presentation “War and Peace: Current Issues” at a recent Schemel Forum luncheon on campus.
thetimes-tribune.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
Sean HigginsJoyce Karam, Washington correspondent for pan-Arabic daily Al-Hayat, offers a sobering assessment on the Al-Arabiya website of the current administrations efforts in the post-”Arab Spring” Middle East.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com
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Could the Arab Spring provoke a sexual revolution in the Middle East, asks Nicholas Blincoe, reviewing Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 8 days ago)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday met Arab American leaders who urged him to deliver a message of hope to the Palestinian people on his Middle East trip this month, even though he has made clear he will not use the visit to launch a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative.
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A self-proclaimed freedom fighter known as “the American” has hopped around the Middle East picking sides in Arab Spring conflicts, most recently in Syria, where he fought with rebel groups against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
nydailynews.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
WHILE Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is getting all the attention, plenty of work is going on behind the scenes to promote Australian films in Cannes.
news.com.au (6 hours ago)
For the last two weeks I have been in the Middle-East—Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. When one reads the newspapers there one gets a completely different view of the troubled area that is the...
examiner.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Nominations for 2013's Cannes Film Festival, which runs 15-26 May, were announced Thursday. Here's the list of the 19 films that will compete for the top prize, the Palme d'Or:
miamiherald.com (30 days ago)
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