DUBAI: Palestinian writer-director Michel Khleifi walked away from the sixth annual Dubai International Film Festival with top honors in the Muhr Arab Feature completion for Zindeeq. The prize for best feature in the Muhr AsiaAfrica competition went to Philippines filmmaker

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli police surrounded the French Cultural Center in occupied East Jerusalem Thursday, apparently to detain the organizer of a Palestinian cultural event, a French diplomat said. Around 50 people, including officials from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA),

DUBAI: Interrogation of memory is a recurring theme in film. Its not hard to see why. Identity, whether personal or group identity, tends to be derived from remembered events and the meaning that recollection projects upon them.Memory has been the