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Sunspot 4341 erupted yesterday afternoon, producing a super-powerful X-class solar flare that lasted for hours. The resulting radiation hit Earth's atmosphere, even causing a temporary radio blackout at short wavelengths. However, of much more interest to photographers is the solar flare's Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that is headed toward Earth now. It may trigger a G4-class geomagnetic storm, which could, in turn, deliver incredible auroras as far south as California and even Alabama in the United States. [Read More]

A second season of Love is Blind: Habibi and a TV version of hit YouTube film-turned feature AlKhallat+ have been unveiled on a Netflix slate from the MENA region. The projects that “champion bold voices and authentic tales from across the Arab world” have just been revealed. A series of Netflix events with similar slates […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mad World, the film sales arm of Cairo-based Mad Solutions, has boarded sales on the Rotterdam-bound anthology of Lebanese short films Home Bitter Home. The collaborative Lebanese artwork, spearheaded by director Georges Hachem, consists of intimate portraits of five little-known artists in their late thirties, whose personal crises are inextricably linked to the multiple […]

A member of the crowd at the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic NBA game in London heckled Vanessa Williams as she performed the Star-Spangled Banner, shouting, “Leave Greenland alone.”  A video of the interruption was widely circulated on social media sites on Sunday night.  President Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring Greenland hit a new point […]