In contemplative drama “1982,” writer-director Oualid Mouaness frames an escalating armed conflict, the First Lebanon War, with a prepubescent romance between a boy and a girl from opposites sides of ...
1982 isn't your typical war film. It's a love story set during growing tensions in the Middle East, when Israel invaded Lebanon 40 years ago. Lebanese filmmaker Oualid Mouaness, inspired by his own ...
Built from old-fashioned sensibilities that serve as both assets and deficits, Oualid Mouaness’ empathetic “1982” feels as though it could have been made during the titular year in which it’s set.
Decades after Arafat was pushed out of Beirut, Hamas's leaders may also choose exile over death; despite key differences, ...
Aoun ordered the army to “confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defence of Lebanese territory ...
The unfolding Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip following Hamas' massacre of Israeli civilians on Saturday could be even more destructive than Israel's campaign against the Lebanese capital of Beirut in ...