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Mia Khalifa took aim at Washington's military aid budget to Israel, in a tweet featuring distressing images of Palestinians killed and injured.
Book Club: Liat Berdugo's The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East delves straight into the concept of visual imagery, politics, psychology and dissemination.
UK activists protest Syrian refugee returns to Danish ambassador
Syrian activists and their supporters have met the Danish ambassador to the UK to protest threatened deportations of refugees to areas around Damascus where they could face torture and detention.
Algeria remembers mass killings under French rule
Thousands of Algerians were killed during the Setif massacre.
Film Review: Our Memory Belongs To Us
Film Review: Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen’s new documentary, premiered at CPH:DOX, documents the emotionally intense reunion of ...
The Present: A tragic exposé of everyday Israeli occupation
Film Review: Farah Nabulsi's Oscar-nominated short-film documents the everyday dehumanisation of Palestinians under a torturous occupation. Littered with metaphorical references and heart-wrenching
Award-winning photographer André Liohn reveals war-torn grief
The New Arab Meets: André Liohn, who unveils the distressing perils of conflict and how human beings can so quickly descend into anarchy under ...
Sherihan: The return of the Arab world’s Ramadan icon
As Sherihan’s magical performance in Vodafone Egypt’s Ramadan advertisement evoked feelings of nostalgia throughout the Middle East, Yousra ...
District Terminal: A dystopic tale of nihilism and hopelessness
Film Review: Bardia Yadegari and Ehsan Mirhosseini's psychological sci-fi recounts a poet living with his mother in a desolated Tehran, ...
Representing MENA artists in the UK
With the narrative having been focused on stereotypical portrayals of people from the region as 'terrorists' or 'illegal immigrants', MENA Arts ...
Film Review: The Man Who Sold His Skin
Film Review: Kaothuer Ben Hania's Oscar-nominated production follows a Syrian man whose desperation towards citizenship leads him along ...
Freedom Fields: Libya's national women's football team sidestep revolution
Film Review: Naziha Arebi's latest film is a triumph of fortitude over adversity, documenting Libya's national female football ...
Libya releases 'one of world’s most wanted human traffickers'
Abd Al-Rahman Milad was released from prison after being accused of direct involvement in the sinking of migrant boats.
Ballad of a White Cow: A journey for justice
Film Review: Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam's moving drama centres on Mina, who devastatingly learns of her husband's execution ...
British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi's wins BAFTA for 'The Present'
A British-Palestinian filmmaker won a prestigious award for her short film, 'The Present'.
Souad: The young, the real, the virtual
Film Review: Ayten Amin’s sophomore feature is an intimate look at the life of a 19-year-old girl's transition into adulthood, who dreams of escaping her dull existence in rural Egypt.
As I Want: The abused survivors of Egypt's revolution
Film Review: Premiered in the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, Samaher Al Qadi's latest feature, a biographical documentary, ...
The Crown star calls for release of British-Iranian man
With the launch of a new Amnesty International campaign, British film and TV stars have called on the Iranian government to release ...
The future of learning Arabic in MENA post-pandemic
Sarah Markiewicz unravels the beloved diversity of learning Arabic, its regional varieties, and how recent events in the region have thrust ...
To honour Mohammed Saleem, UK must officially define Islamophobia
Comment: For Maz Saleem, whose father was killed by a white supremacist, adopting an official, legal definition of Islamophobia would provide ...
BBC reporter leaves China, says 'too risky'
A BBC correspondent had to leave China for Taiwan after facing pressure from authorities over his reporting on Xinjiang rights abuses and the ...
Memory Box: Uncovering a painful past and moving forward
Film Review: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s compelling drama follows a daughter willing to uncover her mother’s troubled ...
In troubled Sahel, memories of a cinematic golden age
French director Jean Rouch shot around 140 films, including many in the Sahel state of Niger, which started a golden Nigerian cinema age now ...
Film Review: The Mauritanian follows the story of a Mauritanian man who was kidnapped from his home and imprisoned without charge for ...
The MENA films selected by this year's Berlinale brimmed with ambition and artistic audacity.
Shamima Begum appears in a documentary featuring Western IS wives, which is set to premiere at SXSW.
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