American film director Jules Dassin has died in an Athens hospital after a short illness, at the age of 96. Dassin was one of the many blacklisted in Hollywood. He moved to Europe where he married the Culture Minister in the former Socialist Government of Greece, the actor Melina Mercouri. After Mercouri’s death in 1994, [...]
Vale, Amal Basry
March 31, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Vale Amal Basry, a woman of great courage and humanity, who died in Melbourne on March 18, 2006 Saturday. After fleeing Iraq with her son, Amal boarded the SIEVX on her journey to Australia. On October 19, 2001, when the boat went down, Amal survived 15 hours in the cold dark ocean with her son. [...]
