Culture

Berlinale 2026: Arab and Turkish filmmakers deliver strong line-up despite Gaza controversy

Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah al-Khatib ruffled the feathers of the German elite with his passionate defence of the Palestinian cause

Why a group of digital linguists are trying to revitalise the long-extinct Phoenician language

British Museum's move to erase Palestine from exhibit labels is shameful

Victoria Brittain

El Sett: Why did the Saudi-backed biopic about Umm Kulthum flop?

Yennayer: What you need to know about Amazigh New Year

Israel's genocide in Gaza

We Are Still Here: What it feels like to live through Gaza's genocide

From steamships to sovereignty: How Iraq's old arteries challenge modern myths

Tanya Goudsouzian

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Palestine campaigners to increase pressure on Eurovision after Israel approved to take part

The New Byzantines: An exploration of Greece's Middle East ties

Why love always hurts in udhri poetry

Sinead O’Connor told Israel’s Itamar Ben Gvir his 'soul had failed' after death threat

Paradise lost: Why the ideal of Al-Andalus found a place in Arab poetry

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Netflix's The Diplomat: American foreign policy as a dysfunctional marriage

Hamid Dabashi

Iraqi authorities demolish a 300-year-old mosque to expand Basra coastal road

Turkey: Archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old Byzantine statues in heart of Istanbul

Good for Nothing: British Muslim author Mariam Ansar on skewing stereotypes

Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi: A warning to the UK from a daughter of dictatorship

How the Moroccan community helped shape Belgium and build its infrastructure

Meet Marvel's female Muslim heroes

Palestine state

In pictures: The Palestinian cafe trying to revive Nazareth's Old City