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LOS ANGELES – Actors and characters of Middle Eastern and North African descent are either ignored by TV or stereotyped, according to a new study. The few such actors who get work are largely ...

HitFix's Daniel Fienberg writes about why it matters that FX’s ‘Tyrant’ didn't cast a Middle Eastern actor in its lead role, going instead with British thespian Adam Rayner.

It's a good time to be an actor from the Middle East and Asia right now. The upcoming glut of Hollywood films dealing with the region has seen a dramatic increase in opportunities for thesps of ...

When a actor who is Middle Eastern of North African portrays a character that’s of MENA heritage (which happens only about half the time), 78% are playing either dictators or what the study ...

Armenian-American author and playwright Shahe Mankerian, whose one-act Worm appears in ReOrient, sees the trend toward staging more Middle-Eastern theatre in San Francisco and L.A. as a good sign ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Earlier this year, Egyptian actor Amr Waked landed a role in a miniseries about the life of Saddam Hussein. For Mr. Waked, who had appeared with George Clooney in the film "Syriana ...

Middle Eastern actors ignored, stereotyped by US TV, study finds Only 1 percent of regularly seen American television actors have roots in countries such as Egypt, Turkey and Israel, despite ...