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Imprisoned Director Jafar Panahi’s No Bears

Imprisoned Director Jafar Panahi’s No Bears

Critic Clive Bell reviews the latest feature from one of several Iranian filmmakers who languish in prison.

15 DECEMBER 2022 • By Aimee Dassa Kligman
Love Has Everything to Do with Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan

Love Has Everything to Do with Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan

Melissa Chemam reviews the new taboo-busting feature film from Moroccan director Maryam Touzani.

5 DECEMBER 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
You Resemble Me Deconstructs a Muslim Life That Ends Radically

You Resemble Me Deconstructs a Muslim Life That Ends Radically

We saw Dina Amer's debut feature film based on the life of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, yet another victim...

21 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Viral Depression in Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever

Viral Depression in Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever

Viola Shafik saw the Montpellier CINEMED screening of a new feature in which Haifa Palestinians catch a strange...

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Orientalism and the Erasure of Middle Easterners in Black Adam

Orientalism and the Erasure of Middle Easterners in Black Adam

Mireille Rebeiz takes issue with the dismal portrayal of Arabs and other Middle Easterners in a Hollywood superhero...

7 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Katharine Halls
Defiance—an essay from Sara Mokhavat

Defiance—an essay from Sara Mokhavat

When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Ziad Kalthoum: Trajectory of a Syrian Filmmaker

Ziad Kalthoum: Trajectory of a Syrian Filmmaker

Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Cem Kaya on the Sound of Turkey in Germany

Cem Kaya on the Sound of Turkey in Germany

Necati Sönmez, a Berlin film critic and curator, reviews the new music documentary from German-Turkish director Cem Kaya.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin

The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin

Film curator and scholar Irit Neidhardt searches for clues to the Berlin disappearance of gramophone tycoon Michel Baida.

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Irit Neidhardt
Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s Ode to Queer Love in Berlin

Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s Ode to Queer Love in Berlin

Iskandar Abdalla reviews the new film "Shall I Compare you to A Summer’s Day?"

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Two Syrian Brothers Find Themselves in “We Are From There”

Angélique Crux reviews the award-winning documentary from Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios.

22 AUGUST 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
 
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