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Behind bars, Muna became a radical leader of female prisoners and a Palestinian heroine. To the Israelis, however, she was a troublemaker. In 2004 Muna sparked two riots in Sharon Prison near Netanya. Warders said she terrorized the women's cell block with threats of violence, punishing anyone who challenged...
Gerald Steinberg, a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, says Muna's notoriety helped get her on the Hamas list but also makes Israel unwilling to release her. "She committed a heinous crime, but if she is released, she'll be greeted when she returns as a symbol...
The Brazilian officials organizing the film premiere of Lula, Son of Brazil probably weren't thinking of the biopic's subject when they chose the music to be played before the curtain went up. But the subliminal connection with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was hard to...
It's been that kind of a year for Lula; even in the middle of the worst global economic crisis in 80 years, everything went right for him. His government lowered interest rates to a level not seen in decades, and foreign reserves rose to a record high. Brazil was...
None of this, however, is in Lula, Son of Brazil, the two-hour epic that opens across Latin America's biggest nation on Jan. 1. With a secondary billing that goes "You know the man, but you don't know his story," the film vaults through the episodes that marked...