With references to Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee, among others, Iraqi-Moroccan director Tala Hadid tells tales of hope and hopelessness in her feature-fiction debut film
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Whose Gaze is it Anyway?
Ashitha Nagesh explores a small, yet telling exhibition at the ICA in London revolving around colourful episodes in the history of popular Arab cinema
Iran: Unedited History
Natasha Morris on an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Iranian art at Paris’ Musée d’Art Moderne spanning over 50 years and featuring over 200 works by over 20 artists
Hold Back
‘There is no black and white – only a slew of murky grey areas, the red, white, and blue of the Tricolore, and the hushed hues of Paris at dusk’
Punk Rock au Maroc
‘Think Siouxsie Sioux and Johnny Thunders, guitars in tow, meet Hindi Zahra in the burned-out basement of a seedy Moroccan haunt …’
Bed of Broken Mirrors
A chat with Iranian-American artist Asad Faulwell about his Les Femmes d’Alger series and the role played by women in the Algerian War of Independence
Memento Mori
A conversation with Alia Al-Senussi and Abdullah Al-Turki, two curators of the ICA’s inaugural ‘Cinema on the Steps’ film festival in London
Welcome to the Jungle
A look at the use of simian symbolism in ‘Omar’ by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, and ‘Bastardo’ by Tunisian director Nejib Belkadhi
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea
‘Mais’ film takes one on a journey to her Palestine, to a Jaffa devoid of oranges … and a Jerusalem where beauty thrives beyond walls’
Revolution and Desire
A conversation with Beirut-based art & film curator Rasha Salti about the Middle Eastern highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival