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| Award-winning Egyptian Filmmaker Youssef Chahine Dies at age 82 |  By The Associated Press
July 27, 2008
Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt's most lauded movie directors whose nearly five decades of films went on Fellini-esque flights of fancy and tackled social ills and Islamic fundamentalism, died Sunday in Cairo. He was 82.
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| The "Greatest surgeon ever", Lebanese-American Michael DeBakey, Dies at 99 | July 13, 2008
Michael DeBakey, Rebuilder of Hearts, Dies at 99
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
The New York Times
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, whose innovative heart and blood vessel operations made him one of the most influential doctors in the United States, died Friday night in Houston, where he lived. He was 99.
His death at the Methodist Hospital was announced by the hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, where Dr. DeBakey was chancellor emeritus.
“Many consider Michael E. DeBakey to be the greatest surgeon ever,” The Journal of the American Medical Association said in 2005.
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| Award-winning Film from Beirut: Caramel | March 2, 2008
In Select Cities in the US.
In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Layale loves Rabih, but Rabih is married. Nisrine is Muslim and her forthcoming marriage poses a problem; she is no longer a virgin. Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and especially to a lovely client with long hair. Jamale is refusing to grow old. Rose has sacrificed her life to take care of her elderly sister. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel.
For current schedule, see
http://newamericanvision.com/Caramel.html
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdVShbXTSIA
Critically acclaimed, and a hit at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, CARAMEL went on to win the Audience Award at The San Sebastian Film Festival. It was Lebanon's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
CARAMEL is an Arab film that is not only directed by a woman, it also features an all-women cast.
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| Clinton's Big Lie from Last Night | Friday, February 1, 2008
fair.org
"We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out
inspectors."
-- Hillary Clinton, Jan. 31, 2008
http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/iraq-in-democratic-debate.html
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NORMAN SOLOMON, norman@accuracy.org,
http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org
Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, is the author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." He said today: "If facts matter, then it should matter that Hillary Clinton chose to rely on such a basic falsehood during the debate when she flatly stated: 'We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors.' In fact, just prior to the Clinton administration's several days of bombing Iraq in December 1998, the U.N.'s UNSCOM weapons inspectors left Iraq when UNSCOM head Richard Butler withdrew them -- because the Clinton administration made it clear that the U.S. government was about to start bombing."
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| Middle East filmmaking @ Sundance | Karin van der Tak
January 29, 2008
I just came back from the Sundance Film Festival, and I felt compelled to write my experience of Middle East filmmaking that was represented in the mountains of Utah...
The Sundance Film Festival 2008 was a mix of snow, filmmakers from all over the world, celebrities, hundreds of features and shorts and thousands of festival goers. And Middle Eastern filmmaking was present, very present.
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| Axis of Evil in the Middle East | The linked story about Maz Jobrani, Aron Kader, and Ahmed Ahmed's Axis of Evil Comedy Tour aired on NPR on December 21, 2007. After a very successful tour of the US, the 3 comedians took their show to the Middle East.
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Comedic Trio Takes Tour to Middle East
from NPR
Morning Edition, December 21, 2007
It's Thursday night at the Casino du Liban.
The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour is warming up for a performance in Beirut, with a bottle of vodka, ACDC's "Back in Black" blaring from one of the dressing rooms and a cheer dedicated to an old Lebanese man who served the comedians homemade arak earlier in the day.
Tonight's show, like preceding performances in Dubai, Kuwait City and Cairo, is sold out. The latest experiment at selling comedy in a conflict-ridden region like the Middle East is a commercial success. Due to high demand, producers have added shows to the tour at the last minute.
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Largely because of their mixed heritage, the Axis of Evil comedians can stand in front of an audience of Arabs in a politically and culturally sensitive region, skewer both America and the Middle East, and get away with it.
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To listen to or read the rest of this story, and to listen to a few short clips of the comedy, go to
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17268898
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| TSA Hajj Travel Guidance for Pilgrims | ADC Update:
Washington, DC | December 11, 2007 | www.adc.org | The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued guidance for travelers performing the Hajj. The advisory describes what to expect at security checkpoints, including preparations that can help travelers move quickly and efficiently through the security process. It notes that pilgrims wishing to bring Zam Zam water, Muslim holy water, should adhere to TSA's liquid regulations by packing it in their checked baggage if the container is larger than three ounces. This important information can be viewed on the TSA website at: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/hajj.shtm
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| U.S. Drops 20-Year Effort to Deport Arab-Americans | (editor's note: The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
Please see the link at the bottom of the page to go to Democracy Now's website and consider a donation to this extremely valuable media source.)
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
The Case of the LA8: U.S. Drops Twenty-Year Effort to Deport Arab Americans for Supporting Palestinian National Rights
Prosecutors have ended a 20-year attempt to deport two Palestinian Americans for allegedly raising money for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Earlier this year an immigration judge ruled the government violated the defendants’ constitutional rights in a case he called "an embarrassment to the rule of law.” We speak to one of the men, Michel Shehadeh, and attorney Marc Van Der Hout. [includes rush transcript]
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| Susan Abulhawa, announced a 2007 Historical Fiction Winner | Fiction & Literature: Historical Fiction Winner: The Scar of David
by Susan Abulhawa
Journey Publications, LLC
ISBN: 9772078-8-6
Susan Abulhawa, author of THE SCAR OF DAVID, was announced today by USA Book News as the 2007 Winner of the Fiction & Literature - Historic Fiction category in this year's National Best Book Awards.
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| Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holiday | NEW YORK (AFP) — New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.
Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.
Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.
An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.
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