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

The Swimmers: Yusra Mardini's journey from a refugee boat to the Olympics

Why Palestine matters to Netflix (and why Netflix matters to Palestinians)

Mediterranean Fever: How one Palestinian film resonated deeply with viewers

Tantura, BDS and surveillance in focus at 'Other Israel' film festival in New York

Netflix's Dubai Bling: Audience takes aim at 'cringey' reality TV show

'A symbol of resistance': Palestine Cinema Days Festival returns for another year

Ramy season three: Wiser, more tortured, but just as misguided

Why Netflix's Mo is Hollywood’s most authentic Arab-American portrait on TV

The silencing of a dangerously flawed film is not censorship

Asim Qureshi

Athena is another nihilistic chronicle of the Paris banlieues

Rafik Chekkat

The Damned Don’t Cry and other new Arab movies you should know about

Netflix's Athena: Romain Gavras takes on life in Parisian ghettos