Donald H. Harrison

Israeli filmmakers to team teach at SDSU

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Award-winning Israeli filmmakers Nir Bergman and David Ofek will serve as visiting lecturers at San Diego State University School this fall. Bergman and Ofek will be team-teaching at San Diego State from August 25 to December 18 through the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which is bringing 13 prominent Israeli artists […]

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Teens saluted for promoting U.S.- Israel friendship

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO –Twelve teens and their adult leaders who wound up a 10-day adventure Tuesday at the San Diego Zoo were awarded congressional certificates of recognition by U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) for promoting international goodwill. The students were participants in a joint program

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Middle East, The World We Share, USA

Al Jazeera vows legal action over Jerusalem bureau shutdown

Cairo (dpa) – Doha-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has vowed to take legal action against Israel after the Israeli government’s decision to close the TV network’s bureau in Jerusalem. “Al Jazeera denounces this decision made by a state that claims to be ‘the only democratic state in the Middle East’,” the broadcaster said in a statement

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Middle East

Putin’s New Shirtless Photos Amaze Russia’s Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Siberian getaway dominated his homeland’s news agenda over the weekend, his torso already earning plaudits from the tabloid press, as well as comparisons to fictional adventurer Indiana Jones. The politician’s topless photos of his fishing trip to Tuva, was reminiscent of Harrison Ford’s “indomitable adventurer and conqueror of hearts,” Moscow tabloid,

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International

North Korea rules out negotiating nuclear weapons programme

Manila (dpa) – North Korea said Monday that “under no circumstances” would it negotiate its nuclear weapons programme as it accused the United States of pushing the situation to “the extreme.” “We will under no circumstances put the nukes and ballistic rockets on (the) negotiating table,” North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told Asia’s

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International, USA

Israeli forces nab firebombers, rock throwers in West Bank, Jerusalem

Police rescue civilian security guards attacked with Molotov cocktails in the capital; 16 Palestinians arrested By Judah Ari Gross Three East Jerusalem residents suspected of firebombing an armored security car were arrested on Sunday night, police said. While on a patrol of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, the armored car was bombarded with

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Middle East

Turkey Hints at Military Operation Against Syrian Kurds

Turkey is building up military forces on the Syrian border, while Turkish President Recep Erdogan steps up his rhetoric suggesting an imminent military operation into Syria. Ankara is reportedly courting Moscow for its support for a possible operation into Syria’s Afrin enclave, which is now under the control of the Kurdish YPG militia. Ankara accuses

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Middle East