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

Middle East film: The hottest features right now are from Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Netflix and Israel: A special relationship

Belen Fernandez

How France's post-terror crackdown inspired film

Is Netflix stereotyping Muslim women?

Middle East cinema: Why you can't watch some of its best films

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque: 'The side you've never seen before'

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound is making it to the big screen

Egypt's biggest film: How The Passage owes a debt to Sisi

Never escaping Palestine: Filmmaker Elia Suleiman's ode to 'home'

Arab films: Seven independent movies to watch out for

Cannes film festival 2019: The good, the bad and the ugly

Aladdin star Mena Massoud under fire for saying he 'doesn't understand' Mideast politics