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Hany Abu Assad Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد‎; born 11 October 1961) is a Dutch-Palestinian-Israeli film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film Paradise Now, and again in 2013 for his film Omar. Abu-Assad was born to a Palestinian Muslim family, in the …

1935 – Documentary about King Ibn Saud’s visit to Palestine by Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan 1982 – Return to Haifa by Kasim Hawal  Return to Haifa tells the story of a Palestinian family living under the Israeli occupation. The film is based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1969 short story of the same …

Feb 13, 2020 1908 The first cinema in Palestine – Oracle – is opened in Jerusalem. Feb 13, 2020 1935 Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan’s film considered the first Palestinian film – a 20 minute documentary about the visit to Palestine by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.All movies had to be …

Palestinian cinema is riding the crest of a wave. In the past decade, its popularity has become so widespread that film festivals dedicated to the screening of Palestinian-made films have opened across the globe. From Boston, Chicago and Washington DC to London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Toronto, Buenos Aires and Australia. Palestinian …

Mount Igman Mosque/War Mosque in Sarajevo Igman mountain was the paradigm of the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and at that time on this place, soldiers of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina started to build mosque, who after the war became famous as The Igman War Mosque. This mosque …

Emperor’s Mosque The Emperor’s Mosque is Saravejo’s oldest mosque and one of the oldest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is presumed that Isa Bey Ishakovic, the founder of Saravejo, had this place of worship built soon after the city’s founding in 1462 in honor of Sultan Mehmed II “the Conqueror”. …

Through this journey, Allah Opened certain doors that I could only to go through them and the path opened up and led me to Bosnia. Growing up in the 1990s with the issue of our identity of being a Muslim in the West with one foot in the east and …

There used to be hundreds of sebiljs (kiosk-shaped public fountains) in Sarajevo, but today the last one is found on Bascarsija square, where it serves as a major symbol of the city. The origins of these fountains can be traced back to the Arabian Peninsula and the custom of building …

Ghazi Husrev-Beg’s Mosque Above the main mosque entrance, there is a stone tablet, 120 cm x 60 cm in size, on which verses in Arabic language are carved. The inscription is placed into six elliptical spaces edged on its sides and through the middle with arabesques. The inscription text is …

Waqf (Endowment) A waqf is an endowment of personal property to be held in trust and used for a religious purpose or the common good. The endowed property is inalienable and cannot be returned to the owner i.e the founder of the waqf. The founder (Wakif) of the waqf must …