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My October 20 Podcast includes Interview with Controversial Lebanese Author Raafat Majzoub

The October 20 Podcast of my radio show Hi, Keefak, Ça Va? includes interview with Lebanese writer Raafat Majzoub, writer of the controversial book Fetish Systems. Listen to Pt 1: http://tinyurl.com/4ydme6j Pt 2: http://tinyurl.com/3g6nrv5 or download at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55299

Scenes from Nadine Labaki's New Film "Where Do We Go Now?" وهلأ لوين

Here are three scenes from Lebanese Director Nadine Labaki's new film "Where Do We Go Now?"  وهلأ لوين followed by 2 trailers and a song from the film titled Hashishet Albi حشيشة قلبي This film has just won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and is also Lebanon’s submission into the foreign language Oscar race.

Nadine Labaki: The Rising Star of Lebanese Cinema

The Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, winner of the People's Choice Award at this year's Toronto film festival, says that success comes with a sense of responsibility. Nadine Labaki (Photo:Reuters) Flush with the triumph of her latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is the toast of the town as she sits in a Beirut cafe giving interview after interview. The movie "Where Do We Go Now?", about a group of women determined to prevent the men in their village from getting involved in a religious war, won best picture at the festival's People's Choice Award, seen as a bellwether for Oscar success. Previous winners of the award including "The King's Speech" and "Slumdog Millionaire" went on to win Oscars at the Academy Awards, and should Labaki's film follow in their footsteps it would be a first for Lebanon. "With success comes a sense of responsibility as you take on the rol

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