TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silk Road Literary Festival returns to Toronto September 20-21, for its second year celebrating literature, art, and ideas from North America’s leading Muslim and BIPOC voices. Tickets are now on sale...
EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Mosquers Film Festival 2025 is excited to announce the addition of Palestine 36 to its festival lineup, marking its first public screening following its world premiere to the Toronto...
(MENAFN) Several entertainers utilized their appearances to demand “Free Palestine,” donning keffiyehs and themed handbags, and shouting “CEASE FIRE!” during Sunday evening’s 77th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California. “Hacks” actress...
(MENAFN) Two additional Palestinians have died from starvation and malnutrition due to the severe Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry confirmed on Sunday. According to a ministry statement, the latest deaths bring the total...
(MENAFN) Lebanon has entered the fourth phase of a sweeping campaign to disarm Palestinian refugee camps, with military units initiating weapons collection on Saturday from the Beddawi camp in the north and Ain al-Hilweh camp near Sidon in the...
(MENAFN) Lebanon on Saturday initiated the fourth phase of its strategy to seize weapons from Palestinian refugee settlements, according to local press accounts. The military commenced the handover process in the Beddawi camp in northern Lebanon...
Latest figure follows death of photojournalist Rasmi Jihad Salem. Another journalist has died covering the war in Gaza. The latest casualty is Rasmi Jihad Salem, a photojournalist for Al-Manara Media Company, who was killed on 2 September in an...
Over 9 in 10 US Voters Would Accept U.S.-Backed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal that combines Israeli-Arab normalization with recognizing Palestinian state WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 12, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Ahead of expected...
(MENAFN) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Britain on Sunday for an official visit aimed at discussing matters concerning Palestine, according to local media reports. A state news agency reported that Abbas is scheduled to meet UK...
Don’t miss DC’s Art All Night festival at the Middle East Institute on Saturday, September 13, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. The late-night open house features MEI's new gallery exhibition, Arab Pop Art: Between East and West, as well as live Arabic...
Last weekend, I visited my home state of Illinois to attend the Church at the Crossroads conference, which was held at Parkview Community Church in Glen Ellyn. Conference organizers estimated that 580 attended in person and 300 more joined...
Israeli troops have encircled Gaza City as the UN chief slams the offensive as "systematic destruction", with thousands of Palestinians unable or unwilling to flee. Israel confirmed on Tuesday that it had begun its long-anticipated ground...
Rabat – Gaza City is witnessing another wave of mass displacement as Israeli occupation forces intensify their ground invasion and bombardment. For many families, this may be their final journey of displacement, as they fear they will never return...
Adolescence has followed up its Emmy success with two Sky Arts Awards, triumphing in the television category along with a breakthrough award for its young star Owen Cooper. The hit Netflix drama beat the BBC's Bernardine Evaristo adaptation Mr...
Palestinian artist, educator, and activist Samia Halaby has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom. Inaugurated last year, the honor is presented annually by Munch—an Oslo museum devoted to the work...
A coalition of nearly 400 prominent Ghanaians has launched an unprecedented campaign demanding the immediate cancellation of the Israeli Film Festival scheduled for September 16-20, 2025, at Silverbird Cinema in Accra Mall, marking Ghana’s entry...
Artist Haegue Yang was named chair of the board that oversees the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She succeeds German artist Katharina Grosse, who served in the role for four years. “I am very pleased that after four very intensive...
When Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January – one of several Arab films at the festival – it marked both a beginning and an ending. Dabis broke through at the Utah event in 2009 with Amreeka, a...
Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s The Sea, about a Palestinian boy, won Best Film at Israel’s Ophir Awards in a somber ceremony in Tel Aviv on Tuesday dominated by Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza as well as the hostage crisis. Many attendees turned...
Relentless Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling targeted desperate Palestinians in Gaza City on Tuesday, on the same day a United Nations inquiry ruled that Israel is committing genocide in the besieged enclave. Thick columns of black smoke...
