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 ...

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 ...

Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born producer of the “Halloween” horror films, died Friday from wounds sustained in the triple hotel bombings, a hospital official said. Subscribe to read this story ...

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 ...

When you have a movie franchise that's been around for 40 years, the sad truth is that not everyone who was involved at the start of the franchise is going to be around to see how the series has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...