Film

A Lebanese bank heist towers over this winter's Middle Eastern film offerings

Rami Kodeih's Furies is set during Lebanon's liquidity crisis of 2019, which led depositors to hold up banks to access their money

Israeli Elections

As elections loom, NAZA controversy strikes at the heart of Israel's crisis

Antony Loewenstein

Israel's genocide in Gaza

NAZA review: Portrait of Israel as a nation stuck in a moral abyss

Israel's genocide in Gaza

How Fauda season five rewrites the Gaza genocide

Venice Film Festival 2026: American monsters dominate the 83rd edition

Locarno Film Festival 2026: Palestine, Iran and Gaza's genocide continue to dominate debate

Christopher Nolan remakes the Odyssey as an Anglo-American imperial fantasy

Hamid Dabashi

Drama on fractured Israeli identity wins Berlin film festival's top prize

Dinner with the enemy: How this Egyptian drama sparked a row over the hijab

Murder, mystery, football: What the Berlin Film Festival can expect from Middle East cinema

Middle Eastern film in 2018: Why it was a milestone year

A tale of two film mavericks: Jocelyne Saab and Oussama Fawzi

Qatar's Ajyal Film Festival: The good, the promising and the unspoken

Sean Penn turns up in Istanbul to film documentary on Jamal Khashoggi

Shooting a film about a coup in Turkey - then the real shooting started

From Gaza to the moon, Palestinian women take the lead at London film festival

Horror in Beirut: Maskoon film festival triumphs against the odds

Who was Ashraf Marwan? A Netflix film fails to tell us

These are the top Arab films of 2017