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Arab Film Institute (AFI) Launched during DIFF 2016

by Mohammed Rouda | Dec 14, 2016 | Entertainment, Lifestyle & Culture

Dubai – In a step previously announced by Asharq Al-Awsat, the Arab Film Institute (AFI) was launched two days ago aiming to promote the Arabian cinema. According to its brochure, this institute intends to create a platform to exchange expertise and ideas among...

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Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’

Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’

by ANDREW HIGGINS, MIKE McINTIRE | Nov 30, 2016 | Entertainment, World

TBILISI, Georgia — Jobless and with graduation looming, a computer science student at the premier university in the nation of Georgia decided early this year that money could be made from America’s voracious appetite for passionately partisan political news. He set up...

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U.S. musician Bob Dylan (R) performs on the second day of the Hop Farm Music Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent June 30, 2012. REUTERS/ Ki Price

American Rock Sensation Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

by Fadel al-Sultani | Oct 14, 2016 | Entertainment

After a little over a decade of being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, American rock sensation Bob Dylan won one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel— noting that a musician winning the top award in literature is a first. Mr....

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Pinoy Community Day Cobra Amusement Park Dammam Saudi Arabia (Dec 9 2011)

Saudi Arabia:First World-Class Theme Park Underway

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Oct 7, 2016 | Entertainment

Riyadh- The Saudi kingdom’s General Authority for Entertainment officially announced a four-year project to launch the Kingdom’s first entertainment theme park. Mr. Ahmed Bin Aqeel Al Khatib, the kingdom’s royal advisor for the Authority for Entertainment,...

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Venice Star-Studded Film Festival

by Mohammed Rouda | Sep 1, 2016 | Entertainment, Lifestyle & Culture

Since the seventies, when director Terrence Malick was at the beginning of his cinema journey, he dreamed of a movie that required massive capabilities to be implemented; a movie that speaks of the universe since its first creation to the modern era of contemporary...

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FIREWORKS are seen during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. AFP

Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Dazzles the World

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 7, 2016 | Entertainment

London – Director Fernando Meirelles was faced with a great challenge when he was assigned to orchestrate the Rio Olympics opening ceremony. The director of the award-winning film “City of God” and “The Constant Gardener” is known for dealing with crime and violence...