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They delivered a list of demands to the dean of the school of social work

After Sunday’s statewide protest, a young man was attacked

Four stand-up comics aim to ease cultural tensions with a few swift salvos of laughter

Faculty lend their support, citing censorship concerns

How a Snapchat message turned into an evacuation campaign

After Sunday’s statewide protest, a young man was attacked

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

This moving Israeli film tells the fraught story of a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove is threatened when the country's defense minister moves next door.

Anti-Palestinian violence is not “on the other side of the globe.” It’s here in Austin, too.

This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.

In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.

As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.

A homophobic Israeli assassin insinuates himself into the life of a former SS officer's gay grandson in hopes of learning the Nazi's location in a well-intentioned but ultimately simplistic plea for tolerance all around.

The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol

When the wife of an assimilated Arab in Israel is identified a suicide bomber, the unwitting husband questions both his marriage and hiss Palestinian identity.

Palestinian and Israeli baby boys are accidentally switched at birth, and that discovery in adulthood creates many repercussions.

This Israeli filmmaker creates a dreamy, animated psycho-documentary about his attempt to recall buried memories of his participation in a massacre while serving in the military.

This gay-tinged Romeo and Juliet story set largely in Tel Aviv shows the complexities of love in a land where the conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers.

Israeli film presents the region's conflict in terms of the world's most annoying, dysfunctional-family road trip, which renders the proceedings almost as exhausting as the real thing.

This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.

Recipient of the 2000 Oscar for Best Documentary, this film unfolds the gripping drama that occurred on September 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, when eight armed Palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the Israeli delegation hostage.

Advocates say it’s a local issue too

Local blues hero goes solo to cut costs, city polls on use of $12 million earmarked for the arts, and the U.S. State Dept. blocks Palestinian artist Dirar Kalash from the Fusebox Festival

Lebanon's internecine crises as courtroom drama

Form an opinion instead of guessing what will win this category

Six retired directors of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency candidly reflect.

Directed by Julian Schnabel, this film tells the story of an orphaned Palestinian girl who is caught between emotions on the eve of the Intifada.