In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that ...

At this year’s Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Egyptian filmmakers arrive not just to premiere their films, but to stake a claim ...

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Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...

Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of ...

Ameer Fakher Eldin’s “Yunan” has won this year’s Arab Critics’ Award for European Films. The award, now in its seventh edition, is presented by European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Arab ...

Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled Syrian writer who travels to a North Sea island, contemplating suicide. By ...

In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn ...

Malaika Arora has shared that dance numbers have come a ‘long way’ since she started, admitting that earlier they were mostly about glamour and spectacle. For years, the inclusion of dance numbers in ...