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

Jonathan Glazer and the need to divest from US film over Gaza

Caspar Salmon

The Zone of Interest: The banal dreams of Nazi settler colonialism

Hazem Fahmy

A car crash Berlinale concludes with a German witch hunt against pro-Palestine filmmakers

Berlin Film Festival: A broken cultural scene and the Palestinian question dominate

Memories of a Massacre: Documentary about Rabaa killings set for general release

Rambo in the Negev, a never-seen Iran and a post-apocalyptic Beirut. It must be Rotterdam

From Dormitory to Animalia: The best Middle Eastern movies of 2023

Why did Saudi Arabia ban the Palestinian keffiyeh at the Red Sea film festival?

Why Hollywood needs a reckoning over its pro-Israel cancel culture

The Dupes: A timeless story of Palestinians' pain and betrayal

Victoria Brittain

In their own words: Seven Israeli films exploring the Palestinian cause

How Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari staged a cinematic rebellion

Hamid Dabashi