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A social-issue revenge thriller, ‘Exile’ follows Hmili’s Locarno-bowed ‘Streams’ that won director at Malmö, actor at Cairo, ...
Netflix's new Middle Eastern Arabic comedy-drama series Catalog will release globally on July 17, 2025. Written and directed ...
Scene is a new platform designed for today’s fast-scrolling audiences, delivering a new approach to Arab storytelling through ...
A new pan-Arab drama series, Something from the Past, is being shot in Abu Dhabi with assistance from twofour54. Produced by Essam Hijjawi and directed by Hussam Hijjawi, ...
From Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti, the Israel-set “Happy Holidays” is a piercing, realistic family drama, the inflection points of which reveal deep cultural and political dimensions ...
Although the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has barely reached its mid-point, the controversies over the big-budgeted dramas, or "musalsalat," which traditionally dominate TV skeds are already in ...
"Winter Of Discontent," directed by war zone documentary filmmaker Ibrahim El Batout who was shot twice previously, garnered plaudits in Venice earlier this year.
Earlier this year, the Egyptian TV drama Lam Shamseya aired across the Arab world. It tackled sensitive topics, including child sexual abuse, and sparked difficult conversations in society.
EXCLUSIVE: Casablanca-born French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui is one of the Arab world’s hottest rising talents. The director won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for her supernatural short So ...
It’s Saudi Arabia, however, and not Egypt that now shapes the Arab TV landscape, a volatile landscape oscillating between the pull of commerce and the insatiable determination of Arab autocrats ...