Film

NAZA: Why the world watches only when Israelis document genocide

A film built on Israeli soldiers' accounts wins acclaim, while the Palestinian doctors and journalists who documented the genocide in Gaza for three years struggle for recognition

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

Asad versus 7 Dogs: Two starkly different movies compete to be the summer Arab blockbuster

How Triangle of Sadness trivialises the class struggle

Ahmed D Dardir

Netflix: Jordanian film Al Hara sparks controversy despite receiving awards

How Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan will strengthen Hindu nationalism

Azad Essa

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