Five Middle Eastern craft beers you need to try
Craft beer is all the rage with hipsters across the world. Microbreweries have become the new in-place to drink for all the flannel shirt and skinny jean wearing 20-somethings seeking an alternative to the oh-so mainstream brews consumed by those with less-refined tastes. While alcohol consumption isn’t exactly what the Middle East is known for, the microbrewery trend hasn’t been lost on the region either. From the streets of Istanbul to the olive groves of Palestine, microbrewing has found a subculture to move the craft forward. For all the beer connoisseurs out there, we’ve done you a favor and compiled a list of some of the most well-known microbreweries throughout the region.
Source: No Garlic Onions
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Film Festival rejects PKK documentary
On April 12, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts announced that "A Guerrilla Documentary: Bakur (North)" would not be screened at the prestigious Istanbul Film Festival. The reason cited for the cancelation of the screening: a missing registration document.
Director of the Istanbul Film Festival, Azize Tan, voiced her disappointment about the cancelation decision during a televised interview. “We [as artists] failed to stand up against censorship in time. We struggled to get by the elusive rules and meander through the red tape. Now the audience and the producers of art are paying the price again.”
Source: Al Monitor
