Culture

Between fantasy and distorted history: Six developments in Arab TV this spring

A new version of the Middle Eastern classic 'One Thousand and One Nights' caught the attention of our critic, as did an Egyptian epic about the medieval Order of Assassins

Rambo in the Negev, a never-seen Iran and a post-apocalyptic Beirut. It must be Rotterdam

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak ordered to pay damages over plagiarism

Uzbekistan’s fabled non flatbread endures along the old Silk Road

Israel's war on Gaza

Why fans are comparing the new Hunger Games film to the war in Gaza

In their own words: Seven Israeli films exploring the Palestinian cause

'Shut up and fall in line': Israel, Palestine and the dawn of a new censorship in western art

'Earliest' painted statue in world unearthed in Turkey's Gobeklitepe

Egypt asked Unesco to modify boundaries of historic Cairo in Riyadh meeting

What are the six Mena sites now added to Unesco's world heritage list?

Edinburgh fringe festival struggles to give voice to the marginalised

Ahmed D Dardir

Electronic Jaglara: The ‘cosmic’ dance music rocking rural Sudan

Between modernity and tradition: Why Turkey appeals to western Muslims and students of Islam

The Book of Delights: A medieval text that helped give rise to Indo-Pakistani cuisine

Turks drop Disney+ following Ataturk series cancellation

In pictures: Inside Gaza's traditional pottery industry

Why love always hurts in udhri poetry

Sinead O’Connor told Israel’s Itamar Ben Gvir his 'soul had failed' after death threat

Paradise lost: Why the ideal of Al-Andalus found a place in Arab poetry

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Netflix's The Diplomat: American foreign policy as a dysfunctional marriage

Hamid Dabashi