Arwa Mahdawi
My jaw is hanging open in disbelief! For once, we are not being demonised,...
Middle East and north Africa
Film speaks with men at a rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia who had previously...
Directed by Panah Panahi, the son of jailed Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, this tense...
Speaking before his director father’s latest arrest, Panah discusses the hypocrisy of the regime,...
The Iranian director was arrested last week for criticising the government after enquiring about...
The decision to produce a film glorifying China’s Communist party in a town destroyed...
Fiyin Olowokandi
Rasoulof and colleague Mostafa Al-Ahmad were taken into custody for calling on security forces...
Mashrou’ Leila have witnessed a crackdown on our LGBTQ+ fans, and devastation in our...
Mashrou’ Leila have witnessed a crackdown on our LGBTQ+ fans, and devastation in our...
The Hollywood film has been banned in a number of countries in the Middle...
Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realised paranoid...
Karim Aïnouz’s essay on his own family history takes him from Brazil to north...
Avi Nesher’s film set near the Gaza Strip in 1948 empathises with every side...
