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Family of Palestinian-American detained by Israel seeks her release. ‘I want my mother back’

JERUSALEM — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven’t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. “I want my mother back,” her son, Ibrahim Esmail, told a news conference on Monday hosted by the Council on …

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old Palestinian-American woman after breaking into her home and pulling her from her bed in the occupied West Bank, her family said Tuesday, saying they had no idea where she was nearly two days after she was detained. Samaher Esmail’s congressman in her home state of Louisiana vowed “to get to …

Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will star opposite Julia Roberts in the Netflix family drama “Leave the World Behind”. “Leave the World Behind” follows two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Ali, who has won two Oscars for his performances in “Moonlight” and “Green Book”, will also next feature in Apple …

Leave the World Behind is based on an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam. Hollywood stars Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts are set to reunite for the family drama Leave the World Behind set up at Netflix. The new project is based on the upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam and the streamer has landed feature film rights to the source material, …