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Netflix has expanded its Hardship Fund to lend financial support to film and television industries across the Arab world.
The fund is an extension of last year’s emergency relief fund, which Netflix established in October 2020 along with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.
The emergency fund was created to help bolster Lebanon’s film and television sector after it was hamstrung by the Beirut port blast, as well the challenges brought on by the economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. Netflix and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture last year launched an emergency relief fund valued at $500,000 to help those in Lebanon s TV and film industry. Courtesy Netflix
The pictures shine a light on a tumultuous period in Iraq’s modern history, including the life - and gruesome death - of the king.
Born in 1935, Faisal II became the youngest reigning monarch in the world when he took the throne as an infant after the mysterious death of his father King Ghazi in a car accident in April 1939.
For nearly 20 years, the young king ruled Iraq through a period of extreme turmoil, including the Second World War.
But the king’s life was cut short when he was shot dead on July 14 1958 in a coup staged by a group of army officers to establish the first Iraqi Republic.