LOS ANGELES – 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 ...

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.

Within Hollywood, Moustapha Akkad was the little-known producer of the “Halloween” horror movie series. But within the Arab American world, he was the famous filmmaker whose movies defied stereotypes ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

Reem Akkad, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice ...

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 ...

Omar El Akkad tells WW ahead of the Vancouver, B.C., stop on his Canadian book tour that he’s tired, understandably so. The writer’s newest book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ...

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 ...

What might happen if a divided United States turned its weapons on its own people? That’s the unsettling premise of Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “American War.” Near the start of this frightening and ...