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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
