The eighth Saudi Film Festival will be held June 2 to 9 at Ithra in the city of Dhahran. This year’s theme will be “poetic cinema.” The festival aims to enrich the local cinematic scene, paying tribute to local greats and offering seminars, advanced training workshops and screenings. In an effort to foster global collaboration, […]...
Afghan artist Aziz Hazara collected 20 tons of garbage from Bagram air base, formerly the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan. He then sent the shipment to the United States as his “gift to the American people.” Its purpose is to retrace the “supply chain of the global war on terror” through international ports and […]
Tony-Lee Thulsie and Brandon-Lee Thulsie, who were arrested in July 2016, pleaded guilty as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution Johannesburg, South Africa, AFP A South African court convicted and jailed twin brothers on Monday over plans to attack the US embassy in Pretoria and join the Islamic State group, local media reported. [&hell...
Prominent Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah was detained by the Indian army on Friday, under terrorism and sedition laws in Indian-held Kashmir. Shah is the founder and editor of the widely read local news website The Kashmir Walla. The 33-year-old has reported about Kashmir for several international publications, including the UK-based Guardian ...
Uyghurs in the U.S. protested in front of the White House Saturday against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. They criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In 2019, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crim...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC on Sunday welcomed Amnesty International’s recent report on Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people. Amnesty’s investigation shows Israel imposes a “system of oppression and domination over Palestinians, which constitutes a crime against humanity.” The OIC hailed the report as a con...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Saturday introduced a new agency to reshape Islam as part of efforts to rid France of extremism. The French government-appointed clergy and lay people will make up the leadership of the Forum of Islam in France. The French government shut down 92 mosques in 2021. Supporters say it will […...
College campuses have been the site of 141 shootings so far during the 2021-22 school year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. A 19-year-old former student was shot and killed after a high school basketball game a week ago in Beloit, Wisconsin. Three teens were hospitalized after a shooting Monday outside Chaparral High School in [&hellip...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man. Amir Locke was shot and killed by police who were executing a “no-knock” search warrant on an apartment last week. This allows law enforcement to enter private property without first alerting occupant...
When 33-year-old Syrian native Ahmad won the diversity lottery and a chance to get a visa to the United States in May 2018, he was in disbelief. It was his third attempt applying for the Diversity Visa Program, which gives up to 50,000 people a chance to apply for a U.S. green card every year. […]
