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

Jean-Luc Godard's revolution: Marxism, Palestine and the working classes

Ahmed D Dardir

The Swimmers: Lead actor hits out at 'orientalist cliches and mistreatment'

The 10 best Middle Eastern and North African films of 2022

Netflix's Farha, a sea of orientalist tropes that says too little, too late

Ahmed D Dardir

Women, life, freedom: How Iran protests were foretold in film

Hamid Dabashi

'We told the truth': Darin Sallam on portraying the Nakba in Netflix's 'Farha'

Tantura massacre: Documentary exposes Israel's foundational myth

Azad Essa

Netflix told Farha's story but families like mine have many more

Hind Khoudary

Netflix's Farha: Film on Nakba sends Twitter into a tailspin

Farha: 'Smear campaign' targets Netflix film depicting Nakba

Netflix's Farha: Palestinians bemused by Israeli anger over Nakba film

Netflix film 'The Swimmers': Who are Sara and Yusra Mardini?