Jul 21st, 2008 · European film aficionados are noting a resurgence in North Africa's film industry. The coastal city of Oran, Algeria, recently hosted its second annual Arab Film Festival. But Algerian producers and critics say the war-battered and repressive country still has a long way to go to regain the form that produced such classics as The Battle of Algiers in the 1960s.
Apr 22nd, 2008 · Former President Jimmy Carter faces criticism for meeting with top Hamas leaders recently who are considered terrorists by the U.S. government. Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa program, talks about the Palestinian militant group and Carter's response to the criticism.
Dec 8th, 2006 · Middle East historian Robert Satloff has written Among the Righteous, subtitled "Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands." He documents many instances of Arabs protecting Jews in North Africa from the Holocaust.
Nov 29th, 2005 · Spain is building barbed-wire fences and installing radar sensors on its coast of the Strait of Gibraltar to try to keep out illegal immigrants from North Africa. Immigrants try to make the 60-mile trip in rickety wooden boats. The Spanish coast guard often discovers them after days adrift, dehydrated and near death.