ATLANTA — Producers working on the upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” are looking for fresh faces. Marinella Hume Casting are looking for two men who have a Middle Eastern background ...

Armenian-American author and playwright Shahe Mankerian, whose one-act Worm appears in ReOrient, sees the trend toward staging more Middle-Eastern theatre in San Francisco and L.A. as a good sign ...

HitFix’s Daniel Fienberg writes about why it matters that FX’s ‘Tyrant’ didn’t cast a Middle Eastern actor in its lead role, going instead with British thespian Adam Rayner.

The Indian family drama "Rafta, Rafta" offers actors of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent a chance to play complex characters on the stage. We'll talk with three of those actors and learn ...

In 2004, Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo became the first woman from the Middle East to be nominated for an Oscar, for her work in “House of Sand and Fog” opposite Ben Kingsley.

In 2004, Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo became the first woman from the Middle East to be nominated for an Oscar, for her work in “House of Sand and Fog” opposite Ben Kingsley.

Mixing elements of the Arab-Israeli conflict with “Romeo & Juliet,” this Middle Eastern import proves more ambitious than coherent. Yosee Gamzo Latova It may advance the cause of Arab-Israeli ...