Desert Dancer makes sloppy, ignorant mistakes in its portrayal of Iran and the 2009 Green Movement, damaging the film’s authenticity.
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The UN envoy to Yemen has resigned after a failed effort to end violent political turmoil in the country.
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Saleem Kareem of Radio Free Iraq discusses how the media landscape in Iraq today emerged from the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation of his country.
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Migration, banishment, and estrangement have long been themes of Arabic literature, and much of 2014’s Arabic translated literature took exile as a central theme.
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Since 2004, Katherine Gallagher and her colleagues at the CCR have been seeking to hold the corporations that profited off of torturing inmates at Abu Ghraib accountable. Sampsonia Way interviewed Ms. Gallagher about the case, which returned to district court in early February.
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Cuba is coming off America’s terrorism watch list and no one might be more excited than corporate America.
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Environmental catastrophe is knocking on China’s door. In Under the Dome, investigative journalist Chai Jing brought the Chinese and their government face to face with the smog issue.
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