LOS ANGELES – Syrian-born film producer Moustapha Akkad, whose three decades of work in Hollywood ranged from the "Halloween" slasher films to more serious movies with Muslim themes, died Friday from ...

AMMAN, Jordan – Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born filmmaker and producer of the "Halloween" horror movie franchise, died Friday from wounds sustained in the triple hotel bombings in Jordan. He was 75.

Speaking out: ‘I was genuinely still scared. I wasn’t aware of the rules. What if you say something or go on a protest? Can they cancel my refugee status?’ (Manuel Vasquez) Along with dozens of other ...

Syrian-born film producer Moustapha Akkad, whose three decades of work in Hollywood ranged from the ” Hallo-ween ” slasher films to more serious movies with Muslim themes, died yesterday from wounds ...

A tablet unearthed at Nippur revealed the story of Sargon of Akkad, the ruler credited with breaking Sumer’s old order and forging one of the first true empires. This episode follows his disputed ...

With mainstream news media being as corporatized and prejudiced as ever, it is easy to be drawn into the world of YouTube political commentators. Some internet pundits, like Cenk Uygur of The Young ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In Omar El Akkad’s 2017 novel, American War, the world as we know it has been flipped upside down. The year is 2074, and the ...

What might happen if a divided United States turned its weapons on its own people? That’s the unsettling premise of Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “American War.” Near the start of this frightening and ...

Hassan Akkad fled Damascus after he was tortured by Assad’s regime. But nothing prepared him for his job as a cleaner on a Covid-19 ward in London… There have been times in the past 10 years, Hassan ...

Moustapha Akkad, who died yesterday as a result of injuries sustained in one of the bomb blasts in Jordan aged 75, was the producer of Halloween (1978), the popular spine-chilling film in which a man ...