Film

India bans 'The Voice of Hind Rajab', citing threats to relationship with Israel

Film board censors Oscar-nominated docudrama about five-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza by Israeli forces

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

Daoud Abdel Sayed: Why the late Egyptian filmmaker was so important

With Bahram Beizai's death, Iranian cinema is orphaned

Hamid Dabashi

The President’s Cake is our favourite movie of 2025. Here are 11 other standouts

The 10 worst Hollywood films by Middle Eastern filmmakers

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Dave Chappelle draws online praise for saying 'I stand with Israel' is code for 'they got me'

Dhurandhar: A Bollywood thriller gives India a win that eluded it on the battlefield

How Hollywood failed to change Trump’s America and what Arab artists must now do

MUBI cancels Istanbul fest after Daniel Craig film Queer censored

Bye Bye Tiberias: Fighting Palestinian erasure through the act of remembering

Katherine Hearst

The Village Next to Paradise: Mo Harawe on his landmark Somali film and Cannes debut

Palestinian grief and Lebanon's ghosts of war cast a shadow on Locarno 2024

US-Israel relations

Israelism: The film that exposes the US-Israel propaganda machine

Oscar Rickett

Corridors of Power: BBC series calls for more US global meddling

Imran Mulla