{"id":91165,"date":"2017-02-25T05:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91165"},"modified":"2017-02-25T05:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:17:59","slug":"us-bars-syrian-behind-nominated-film-from-attending-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/25\/us-bars-syrian-behind-nominated-film-from-attending-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"US bars Syrian behind nominated film from attending Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91167\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. immigration authorities have decided to bar entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer whose harrowing film about his nation's civil war, \u201cThe White Helmets,\u201d has been nominated for an Academy Award. (Photo: The White Helmets\/Facebook)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14409442_1582572912049642_1193831495343677881_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. immigration authorities have decided to bar entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer whose harrowing film about his nation&#8217;s civil war, \u201cThe White Helmets,\u201d has been nominated for an Academy Award. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1582572418716358\/photos\/a.1582572938716306.1073741827.1582572418716358\/1582572912049642\/?type=1&amp;theater\">The White Helmets\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; U.S. immigration authorities have decided to bar entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer whose harrowing film about his nation&#8217;s civil war, \u201cThe White Helmets,\u201d has been nominated for an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>According to internal Trump administration correspondence seen by The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security has decided at the last minute to block Khaled Khatib from travelling to Los Angeles for the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>Khatib was scheduled to arrive Saturday in Los Angeles on a Turkish Airlines flight departing from Istanbul. But his plans have been upended after U.S. officials reported finding \u201cderogatory information\u201d against Khalid.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. Derogatory information is a broad category that can include everything from terror connections to passport irregularities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; U.S. immigration authorities have decided to bar entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer whose harrowing film about his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[15755,15754],"class_list":["post-91165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-syrian-cinematographer","tag-the-white-helmets","mauthors-bradley-klapper","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}