‘Mais’ film takes one on a journey to her Palestine, to a Jaffa devoid of oranges … and a Jerusalem where beauty thrives beyond walls’
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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
Two Metres of this Land
‘… Palestine will continue to develop and mature, despite its shrinking corporeal form; it will insist on its existence, refusing to be forgotten’
A World Not Ours
Mahdi Fleifel’s documentary revolving around the everyday life of a Palestinian family in Southern Lebanon’s Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp
Filming on the Fringe
‘Cinema is a tough place to be’ - an interview with Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s first female filmmakers, Haifaa Al Mansour & Khadija Al-Salami
The Fruit of Our Labour
‘This is a new Afghanistan – one in which the camera’s gaze is not a metaphor for power inequities, but a tool through which power and politics can be debated’
The Attack
Acclaimed Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri talks to Joobin Bekhrad about his controversial new film, ‘The Attack’, currently banned across the Arab world
In the Shadow of a Man
A look at Egyptian director Hanan Abdalla’s prize-winning documentary highlighting the condition and everyday lives of women in Cairo
Sleepless Nights
‘Your conscience is buried while mine is still alive … What shall I do today, Mr. Assaad Shaftari? I don’t want a statue, I want nothing, just a bone from my son …’
Lebanese Rocket Society
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige investigate the humble origins, glory days, and sudden end of Lebanon’s all but forgotten ‘Rocket Society’