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Three years ago, when Islamist rebels seized the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako began planning a film about Islamic extremism. As an African Muslim, he says he always ...

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DAKAR (Reuters) - The Oscar nomination of "Timbuktu", a film about the occupation of the Malian desert town by al Qaeda-linked Islamists in 2012, should not mask the lack of established cinema from ...

What seems like serendipity in the timing of a film's release sometimes signifies prescience and vision on the part of the filmmaker. Award-winning writer/director Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for ...

In the film Timbuktu, Kidane (played by Ibrahim Ahmed, center) and his wife live in a tent on a dune outside the city with their daughter (played by Layla Walet Mohamed, right) and a boy orphaned by ...

On July 29, 2012, a couple in northern Mali, who had two children, were stoned to death by Islamist militants. The reason: The mother and father were not married. That horrifying story inspired ...

For four hundred years Timbuktu was an academic centre of the world. The great manuscript archives from this period that solved matters such as determining the direction of Mecca and time keeping are ...