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...Coppola (Apocalypse Now, 1979) took the glory for the U.S. and even Bob Fosse joined in at the start of the 1980s with All That Jazz. But critics would snipe that truly great films (and directors) were being overlooked: there would be no Cannes love for Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul),Werner Herzog (Every Man for Himself and God Against All, aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Terence Malick (Days of Heaven) or Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) - though it must be acknowledged that Wenders would eventually win in 1984 for Paris, Texas. Meanwhile, films from...
...Judge Muhammadi Qunsuwa announced the case will be referred to Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the nation's highest religious official, who will rule on Moustafa's death sentence on June 25. Upon hearing the verdict, Moustafa's sister reportedly fainted in the courtroom just a few feet from the cage where her brother stood imprisoned during the trial...
...Bouchon Breton: Located in Spitalfields, London, this brasserie de luxe, www.lebouchon.co.uk/breton/index.php, is already renowned for its impressive Gallic cheese trolley featuring more than 40 varieties, from Le Testard from the Hautes-Alpes to the Corsican Fleur de Maquis. Now frommelier Jean Claude Ali Cherif has started offering a series of regional-cheese master classes, coupled with unusual wine pairings, on the last Tuesday of each month. Ali Cherif's knowledge, built up over 20 years, is formidable and his repartee amusing, inspiring and impressively practical, with advice on how to look after cheeses and when to enjoy them...
...held important political positions as well as fulfilled her role as a mother of three children. "They should take that into consideration," she said, sitting behind an image of revolutionary founder Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini (commonly referred to as the Imam in Iran) and current Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Disappointed but not surprised by the ruling, she said, "I am convinced that the views of both the Imam as well as the Leader support the candidacy of women." Bayat added that her inspiration to become politically active was a visit she paid to Khomeini as a young student, in which...
...more than one occasion, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has pledged reprisals against American "interests around the world" should Iran suffer a pre-emptive attack against its nuclear program. Iran has other levers at its disposal. After promising to stop deportations of Afghan refugees - one million of whom still live in Iran - Tehran has resumed sending waves back over by force. Shipments of school text books offensive to Afghanistan's majority Sunni Muslims have also started crossing the border from Shi'a Iran in greater number, according to Rafiq Shahir, head of the Herat Professionals' Council, who claims that...