Egyptian actress Rania Farid Shawki has accepted the leading role for a new film “Al Abna’ Al Kibar” (The Older Children), directed and produced by prominent Syrian comedian-actor Duraid Laham. The ...

Duraid Muhammad Hassan al-Lahhaam is a Syrian actor-director born in al-Kumayreyya, Damascus in 1934. His talent appeared in 1958 on the university stage at the faculty of Science where he majored in ...

On Monday, Israeli soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including two children in addition to a father and his son, in the Hebron governorate, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part. Media sources ...

A long-anticipated new TV show, a vehicle for Palestinian-American comedian Mo Amer, has been praised for its highly relatable depiction of life in the diaspora. Set in Houston, Texas, Mo portrays the ...

Following a decade-long re-engagement with Syria after a period researching Yemen, Lisa Wedeen recently published her latest book, Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in ...

Veteran Syrian comedian Duraid Lahham, famous across the Arab World for the character of Ghawwar Al Tawsheh, is making a cinematic comeback this summer with a film called Dimashq – Halab ...

For Syrian actor Duraid Lahham, his trade is a means to promote resistance awareness Throughout his 50-year career, Syrian actor and playwright Duraid Lahham delighted millions with his plays, films ...

On her last Facebook post on Saturday, she wrote: “I will not lose hope; I will not lose hope. It is the Great Syria not Assad’s Syria.” This is how the brave Syrian actress Mai Skaf bid life farewell ...

Abdullha Abdulhameed, an Iraqi man in Sweden, posted the video of his encounter with Swedish security guard Kalle Alm speaking fluent Arabic video to Facebook. The original clip has been viewed almost ...

Alm, who lives in Västerås, some 100 kilometres west of Stockholm, said he has never taken any proper classes in the language, but that he has instead picked it up on his own by watching Arabic TV ...

We all know the feeling - you're abroad, people are speaking a foreign language, and out of the blue something reminds you of home. For one Iraqi man in Sweden that encounter was with a man called Abu ...