Film

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

Social media users say generative AI produced stereotypical and "racist" caricatures

Harka: Tunisian film depicts the fire and failure of the Arab Spring

Ahmed D Dardir

In pictures: Depictions of Cleopatra through the ages

Tantura: Film on Nakba massacre of Palestinian village premieres at Bafta

The Nakba on screen: Five must watch films about the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948

Tantura: Documentary on Israeli massacre during Nakba to premiere in London

The curious case of Flight 422: Why was the series on hijacked Kuwaiti airliner pulled?

Berlinale 2023: Race, misogyny and a fawning tribute to Israel's Golda Meir

Berlinale 2023: Old Iran and new Iran take centre stage at film festival

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