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

Israeli-Iranian film Tatami delivers a knockout but has questionable politics

From Backstage to Bye Bye Tiberias: The Middle Eastern films to look out for this autumn

Venice film festival: Daring political films show what Middle East cinema is lacking

Golda: A failed attempt to boost Israel's propaganda

Nada Elia

The Arab world and Barbie: Why Greta Gerwig's film has provoked anger in the Middle East

Palestinian Prison Break: Film shows resilience in the face of Israeli injustice

Ghada Abed

Oppenheimer: The glorification of mass murder – coming to a cinema near you

Hamid Dabashi

The banality of censorship: A decade of war against the arts in Sisi's Egypt

Memories of a Massacre: Revisiting Rabaa and the end of the Egyptian revolution

The Soil and the Sea: Excavating Lebanon's history of violence

Barbie: AI-generated images of 'every country' portrayals spark criticism from Mena region

How Palestinian filmmakers are using the supernatural to confront the wounds of the Nakba