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Cannes: Hasan Hadi’s ‘The President’s Cake’ Wins Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award
The newcomer’s tragicomic debut, inspired by his childhood under Saddam Hussein, earns raves and the only audience prize ...
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Winners: Iraqi Film ‘The President’s Cake’ Clinches People’s Choice Audience Award
Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight ...
‘The President’s Cake’ Review: Hasan Hadi’s Warm and Heart-Tugging Tale Sends Dutiful Kids on an Odyssey in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Playing the Cannes Film Festival, Hasan Hadi’s compassionate directorial debut follows two Iraqi children living under Saddam ...
"I saved the world from Saddam Hussein," says Blink-182's Mark Hoppus
While the US military have yet to formally recognise Hoppus' part in the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003 as part of Operation Red Dawn, the pop-punk star believes that it was ...
Sewickley's Tapas Talks presents Will Bardenwerper
The second installment of the 2025 Tapas Talks speaker series was held May 1 at the Allegheny Country Club. The talk featured ...
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When the US Army used Uday Hussein’s Lamborghini as target practice
Being one of the most unique and rarest SUVs ever built didn’t stop the US Army from blowing Saddam Hussein’s son’s ...
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‘90s rock icon claims he ‘saved the world from Saddam Hussein’
Mark Hoppus — he of Blink-182 fame — has come out and claimed that he had a role in the United States’s capture of none other than Saddam Hussein. So, here’s what happened. Hoppus informed NME during ...
Who was Pokhran’s hero Raja Ramanna… he rejected Saddam Hussein’s huge money offer of…, made India a nuclear power by…
It was during Raja Ramanna's tenure that India conducted its first nuclear bomb test in 1974. For this work, he was awarded ...