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When Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios heard his cousins, Jamil and Milad Khawam of Syria, were leaving for Europe in 2015, he reached for his camera as a way to cope. Documenting their departure was meant to stave off an encroaching sense of loss. Little did Tanios know he had begun working on his first feature film.
We Are From There is a documentary that is as much about preserving lifelong relationships as it is about dealing with loss and change. The film, showing at Cinema Akil in Dubai on Wednesday, took five years to make and stitches together recent footage with old family videos, even those taken by a mobile phone from the brothers journey. The end result is a multi-textural experience that goes against the grain of the stereotyped refugee narrative.
Man stumbles across 2,500-year-old Bronze Age treasure trove in Swedish forest - in pictures
The discovery has been labelled one of the most spectacular and largest cache finds from the Bronze Age
Conservator Madelene Skogbert shows a bone ring that is part of the about 50 whole or larger parts of bronze objects that have been found in Alingsas, in Gothenburg, Sweden. EPA
The find discovered in Alingsas consists mainly of objects for personal decoration and is one of the most spectacular and largest depot finds from the Late Bronze Age that has ever been made in Sweden. AFP
The treasure was found outside the town of Alingsas in April. Swedish orienteering enthusiast Tomas Karlsson stumbled upon it lying in front of a huddle of rocks. AFP
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Seven authors and researchers from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and the US, as well as a publishing house from Lebanon, have been declared the winners of this year s Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
The winners will be formally awarded in a virtual ceremony ahead of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in May. They will each receive a gold medal, certificate of merit and a cash prize of Dh750,000.
The winners were selected from a pool of more than 2,300 submissions, the most the annual award has received since it was founded in 2007.
The winners
Egyptian writer Iman Mersal’s novel
In her final TV interview,
Peaky Blinders actress Helen McCrory, who died on Friday aged 52, gave little indication that she was gravely ill.
She appeared on the British show
GMTV in mid-March with her husband and actor Damian Lewis to promote The Prince’s Trust, a charity that helps
people aged between 11 and 30 find jobs and pursue their education. McCrory’s voice was hoarse and her hair was somewhat
dishevelled, prompting host Kate Garraway to ask whether she was feeling alright. You sound a bit croaky, have you got a sore throat? Garraway asked.
“No, I’ve got children, thank you for asking,” McCrory said, laughing. “And no make-up artist and no hairdresser! So if there s young person out there who would like a bit of help, phone up Prince s Trust and then come straight over here!”