With a new strategic balance in the Middle East and pressure building to implement a U.S.-backed peace plan, next week\’s meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush could be their most important to date.
Variety, the daily newspaper covering the entertainment industry, admonished Egyptian television in a Nov. 13 editorial for running its 41-part series called \”Horseman Without a Horse,\” a series which is based on the anti-Semitic tract \”Protocols of the Elders of Zion.\”
"We will never go hungry," Ahmad Zughayer boasted as a truck from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) unloaded sacks of flour, sugar, oil, rice and milk powder in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic got underway at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague this week.
\”Snow in August\” is an offbeat TV movie, part gritty reality and part fantasy, at the center of which is the curious friendship between an Irish Catholic altar boy and a refugee rabbi in post-World War II Brooklyn.
Since she fled the former Soviet Union more than a decade ago, Anya Verkhovskaya has come more than full circle.
A film on the Nazi-era rescue of refugee children, most of them Jewish, has been nominated for an Oscar in the documentary feature category.
\”Haven\” is an intriguing but seriously flawed depiction of how nearly 1,000 European refugees were transported and admitted to the United States in 1944, which CBS-TV will present as a four-hour miniseries on Feb. 11 and 14 at 9 p.m.
here are some 39 million refugees and displaced persons in the world today, and Angelenos can get a hint of how they live and survive at \”A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City\” exhibition, now in Exposition Park through Oct. 22.
There is a sense at this moment that \”time has stopped.\” That all political voices have become silent, in Israel no less than in the United States, while Messrs. Arafat, Barak and Clinton struggle over language, issues and principles in an effort to reach a peace agreement.
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