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Salwa Gaspard gazes fondly at the hundreds of Arabic-language books displayed on dark wooden shelves, putting some back in place while exchanging a few

Salwa Gaspard gazes fondly at the hundreds of Arabic-language books displayed on dark wooden shelves, putting some back in place while exchanging a few words with customers.

LONDON (AFP) – Salwa Gaspard gazes fondly at the hundreds of Arabic-language books displayed on dark wooden shelves, putting some back in place while exchanging a few words with customers. In just a few days’ time, her London bookshop, known to literary enthusiasts throughout the Middle East, will close for good. Al Saqi Books is […]

Al Saqi Books is another victim of the pandemic, and the economic upheaval in the UK and Lebanon, from where Gaspard and her husband Andre's publishing house prints ...

Last Floor Productions (LFP) launched a first-of-its-kind, non-profit Academy initiative to offer tuition-free training and workshops to aspiring TV show creators in Lebanon.

Streaming hits big in the Middle East June 27, 2016 It’s a sunny afternoon in Beirut and you’re sitting in a café, waiting for a friend who is running fashionably late as usual, but it doesn’t bother you because now you have time to catch the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory on your smartphone. This is the attraction of video on demand (VOD): the convenience of watching whatever you want, at any time and on any device. Provided there is internet, of course. In the Middle East, mille...

DUBAI: For far too long, creators of films and TV shows in the Arab world have had only two realistic options: Either make an arthouse movie that is intended to tour international film festivals (often never actually getting seen by a mainstream audience), or make a traditional melodrama for one of the major TV networks in the region. With very few exceptions, all the many genres lying in between — prestige crime dramas, supernatural thrillers, space westerns and more — have been left to t...