Slum to stardom: Indonesian film director Joko Anwar is riding high | Cinema News

Slum to stardom: Indonesian film director Joko Anwar is riding high | Cinema News

Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian film director Joko Anwar is a busy man. He is on location in the city of Bandung, shooting “a new project”, the details of which he refuses to divulge, while also wrapping up post-production on another film to be released “soon”. At the same time, he…

Hinglaj Yatra Hindu festival brings mountainous region in Pakistan to life | Religion

Hinglaj Yatra Hindu festival brings mountainous region in Pakistan to life | Religion

The dramatic surroundings of Hingol National Park in Balochistan province are the setting for Pakistan’s largest Hindu celebration, Hinglaj Yatra, which started on Friday and ends on Sunday. Muslim-majority Pakistan is home to 4.4 million Hindus, just 2.14 percent of the population, and the ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata…

US returns ancient artefacts looted from Cambodia, Indonesia | Arts and Culture News

US returns ancient artefacts looted from Cambodia, Indonesia | Arts and Culture News

New York district attorney accuses two prominent art dealers of the illegal trafficking of antiquities worth $3m. Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers. The antiquities…

Mandela’s world: A photographic retrospective of apartheid South Africa | Human Rights

Mandela’s world: A photographic retrospective of apartheid South Africa | Human Rights

Photographer Jurgen Schadeberg (1931-2020) spent most of his life documenting the struggle against apartheid. Years before his death in 2020, Schadeberg shared some of his iconic images – and the stories behind them – with Al Jazeera. On April 27, 1994, South Africa held its first multiracial democratic election, voting…

UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years | Arts and Culture News

UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years | Arts and Culture News

The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars. The United Kingdom has returned 32 gold and silver treasures stolen from the Asante Kingdom more than 150 years ago in what is today’s Ghana on a six-year loan, Ghanaian negotiators have said….

‘Accepted in both [worlds]’: Indonesia’s Chinese Muslims prepare for Eid | Religion News

‘Accepted in both [worlds]’: Indonesia’s Chinese Muslims prepare for Eid | Religion News

Jakarta, Indonesia – Millions of Muslims across Indonesia, including some of its ethnic Chinese minority, are preparing for Lebaran, as Indonesians call Eid, the festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. About 87 percent of Indonesia’s more than 270 million people are Muslim and while most…

Residents in North America look to the sky for a rare total solar eclipse | Space

Residents in North America look to the sky for a rare total solar eclipse | Space

A major golf tournament ground to a halt. Schools emptied of students. And thousands of people across North America turned their eyes to the sky to watch a rare celestial event. On Monday, parts of Canada, Mexico and the United States were treated to a total solar eclipse, a phenomenon…

What is a Godzilla anyway? The 70-year-old monster behind the movies | Arts and Culture News

What is a Godzilla anyway? The 70-year-old monster behind the movies | Arts and Culture News

It’s Godzilla season again with last weekend’s worldwide theatrical release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. This is the second time Godzilla and King Kong have made a film appearance together in recent times with 2021’s Godzilla vs Kong being the first instalment. Both films were directed by Adam…

Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture

Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture

Kochi, India – A chance encounter when he was selling postcards to tourists in Jew Town as a 13-year-old in the early 1980s would change the course of Thaha Ibrahim’s life. Growing up in Mattancherry, a bustling hub of the spice trade in the southern Indian city of Cochin (now…