The man seated at the table next to me at lunch — born in Baghdad and now well into his 70s, I’d learned while waiting for our food — glanced at the bowl a server had just put down in front of me. He ...

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 wounds ...

“Egyptians believe that they invented beauty,” says Susan Akkad. She’s a woman who would know, given her degree from Harvard in ninth- to 14th-century Arabic literature and diplomacy. For nine years, ...

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.

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. Akkad died at 7:30 a.m. in a ...

Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write “shut up and read,” a book newsletter. I’m also on BookTok. This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian ...

Elizabeth Palmer is CBS News' senior foreign correspondent. She is based in the CBS News London Bureau, and reports on major events across Europe and the Middle East. Palmer was previously based in ...

Walid Akkad lives in a French château and has a tiny showroom in Paris and only a handful of photos on Instagram. By Tina Isaac-Goizé Reporting from Paris Of all the jewelers in Paris, Walid Akkad may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patreon, the popular online crowdfunding platform, investigated YouTube personality Carl Benjamin — more commonly known as "Sargon of Akkad" — for potentially violating its code of conduct through his ...