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The saga continues. Days after sharing alleged DMs from Scott Disick, Younes Bendjima returned to social media with a pointed message.

Amelia Hamlin, 20, may have just thrown a little bit of shade in Younes Bendjima‘s direction. As fans know, or in some cases, are about to know, Amelia’s boyfriend, Scott Disick, 38, is currently involved in some drama with Younes, 28, after the Algerian model shared an alleged screenshot of direct messages sent from Scott, in which he shaded their mutual ex Kourtney Kardashian‘s PDA-filled romance with Travis Barker.

Kourtney Kardashian and Younes Bendjima called it quits in 2019, but the drama between the duo never fully abated.

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The treacly sentiments on the brotherhood of man from the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony didn’t take long to vanish. On Friday, a judoka competitor from Algeria was suspended and sent home after withdrawing from the games by refusing to face an Israeli.

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Ed Meza @edmezavarFor Berlin-based Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, traveling to Algeria in 2019 to visit his father’s homeland became an emotional journey that not only resulted in his latest work, the Cannes title “Mariner of the Mountains,” but also the documentary “Nardjes A.,” which premiered last year in Berlin.“Mariner of the Mountains,” which unspools in Special Screenings Friday, is Aïnouz’s most personal film since one of his earliest works, the 1993 short “Seams,” about his

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMounia Meddour, the director of the Cesar-winning film “Papicha” that also played to acclaim at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019, will next direct “Houria,” an Algeria-set drama headlined by “Papicha” star Lyna Khoudri.Meddour, who is on the jury of this year’s Un Certain Regard, wrote the original screenplay for “Houria.”The film is set in contemporary Algeria and will star Khoudri (“The French Dispatch”) as a young woman who is passionate about ballet

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Tahar Rahim is one of Hollywood’s biggest breakout stars of 2021. After first appearing in streaming shows like and, the 39-year-old French Algerian actor first has emerged as a leading man with opposite Jodie Foster and the true-crime drama, .In the latter, which is now streaming on Netflix, Rahim portrays the 1970s “Bikini Killer” and fraudster, Charles Sobhraj, who was responsible for murdering over a dozen of Western tourists along the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia.

“Do you still talk to what’s his name?” Khloe Kardashian asked sister Kourtney Kardashian on the Mar. 25 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“A Prophet,” the series adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 film, will be set in today’s France, in Marseille, with a young, Black protagonist.

straight to your inboxRiyad Mahrez admitted his goal against Arsenal was lucky, but took some credit for his strike that set Manchester City on their way to the Carabao Cup semi-finals.After Alex Lacazette had cancelled out Gabriel Jesus' opener, City were tasked with coming out in the second half and scoring a second goal in a game for the first time in four games.

straight to your inboxRiyad Mahrez used his vote for the prestigious FIFA Best Men's Player award to put forward Liverpool's Sadio Mane before Manchester City teammate Kevin De Bruyne. As Algeria captain, Mahrez was able to pick his top three players of the year, with his first pick earning five points, his second three points and his third choice one point to go towards a final total that eventually crowned Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski the clear winner.

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester City morning headlines for Sunday, November 29.Mahrez delight at first City hat-trickRiyad Mahrez netted his first Manchester City hat-trick against Burnley – having only scored once this term before his maiden treble on Saturday afternoon.Against the Clarets, the Algeria international opened the scoring in the sixth minute and doubled the hosts' lead midway through the first-half.

straight to your inboxManchester City fans are hoping Riyad Mahrez can return to Manchester City full of confidence after he scored an incredible solo goal on international duty. After getting on the scoresheet as well as grabbing an assist for Algeria against Zimbabwe last week, Mahrez again shone against the same opposition on Monday as Algeria remained in control of their African Cup of Nations qualifying group.

Human Rights Watch.A lawyer involved in the case told Human Rights Watch that police reports described decorations, flowers, and sweets indicative of a wedding celebration, as well as the two principal men’s supposedly “gay” appearance, as evidence of the students’ guilt.In Algeria, same-sex activity is punishable by up to three years in prison, and same-sex marriages are outlawed.

ALGERIA“Heliopolis” Director: Djaafar Gacem Algeria has a pretty good record at the Oscars, with five nominations and one win (for 1969’s “Z”) in its 21 previous entries. But it hasn’t received a nomination since 2010, a dry spell it’s hoping to end with this drama about a family in northeastern Algeria on Victory in Europe Day, the day Germany surrendered to end World War II in Europe.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentRomania has chosen Alexander Nanau’s documentary “Collective” (pictured) to be its official entry in the International Feature Film category of the 93rd Academy Awards, while Ecuador has selected Paul Venegas’ “Emptiness” and Algeria has entered Djaâfar Gacem’s “Héliopolis.”Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina has confirmed that Jasmila Zbanic’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?” will represent the country in the contest, as reported last week by Variety.The

Frictional Games has released the first gameplay trailer for Amnesia: Rebirth, the third game in the developer’s survival horror series.The five-minute-long trailer, which made its debut exclusively on IGN, follows new character Tasi Trianon as she wanders through the Algerian desert alone.

Netflix has snatched up another hot French film, acquiring English-language rights in North America, the U.K., Australia/New Zealand, South Africa and the Middle East for DNA, the latest drama by and starring multitalent Maïwenn (Polisse). In her sixth feature as a director, Maïwenn stars as Neige, a divorced mother of three who retains a close connection to her Algerian grandfather, visiting him regularly in the nursing home where he lives.

hereAmmar helped out at a mosque and threw everything into being a part of his adopted community. He'd just enrolled on a series of college courses.

PARIS -- Michael Lonsdale, an enigmatic giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of the world’s top directors in an acting career that spanned 60 years, died Monday at 89, his agent said.From his role as the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker” to that of a French monk in Algeria in the 2011 movie “Of Gods and Men,” Lonsdale acted, often in brilliant supporting roles, under top directors including Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Francois Truffaut and Louis

Of Gods and Men, 2010), as one of a group of Trappist monks living in rural Algeria. “I’d vowed never to accept another role as a priest,” Lonsdale said, “but I couldn’t resist playing this wonderful, generous character.”It was Orson Welles who first cast Lonsdale as a priest, in The Trial (1962).

Jay Weissberg A 17-year-old Parisian girl of Algerian parentage struggles to negotiate the conflicting tensions between desire, familial expectation, peer pressure and heritage in debuting writer-director Kamir Aïnouz’s intermittently successful “Honey Cigar.” Refreshingly empowering in how it foregrounds the female gaze together with the young woman’s ownership of her sexual urges, the film too often falls back on paper-thin characterizations that trip up the director’s ambitious attempt to

A girl living between countries and cultures, and between adolescence and adulthood, tries to come into her own in the Franco-Algerian coming-of-age drama Honey Cigar (Cigare au miel). This is the debut feature from filmmaker Kamir Ainouz and if that name sounds familiar, that’s because she’s the half-sister — and near-homophone — of Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Ainouz.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Venice Film Festival’s industry-focused Production Bridge had unveiled the line-up of projects that will take part in its ‘Final Cut In Venice’ workshop this year. The six films all hail from the MENA region.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorByron Allen’s Allen Media Group division Entertainment Studios is to launch seven of its networks in the Middle East on Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company’s Du platform. The deal was brokered by SAWA Rights Management.