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On the eve of Hollywood ceremony Homeland Security stops Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker from entering USA

 SANA MAHMOOD

WASHINGTON: Homeland Security here has barred 21-year-old Oscar Nominee Khaled Khatib from entering USA despite having a valid visa.

He was detained in Istanbul because the US Homeland Security had said they had derogatory information about him.

A photographer for the Syrian Civil Defense – called the White Helmets – Khaled Khatib has worked on Netflix film and was nominated for Oscar.  

The White Helmets  (that can win Best Documentary Sort at Academy Awards) is a forty-minute film about volunteer rescuers in Aleppo. 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.