Cotton Queen, by Sudanese filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani, has won the Best Feature Film Award at this year’s Thessaloniki Film ...

At the foundation of professional tennis, Monastir has become a true hotspot for international tournaments. In 2025, the city hosted multiple ITF World Tennis Tour events, with around 25 to 30 ...

Suzannah Mirghani’s Sudanese drama “Cotton Queen” won the top prize Sunday at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, taking home the ...

The New Arab provides an exclusive preview of the MENA region’s top entries at the Cairo Film Festival, with a spotlight on ...

In a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's ...

Film drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 ...

The Iranian filmmaker talks about her harrowing Cannes documentary and how to remember the film's beloved late subject.

Tiina Lokk previews the PÖFF 2025 lineup, discusses programming movies from Israel and Gaza, and highlights the state of the ...

The selection includes the world premiere of Barni, Mohammed Sheikh’s debut feature, about a nine-year-old girl who ...

Also showing are "The Little Sister," a Cannes-honored drama about the identity struggle of a French-Algerian lesbian ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco-based Arab Film and Media Institute, ...

The first edition of the Gaza International Women’s Film Festival kicked off on Monday 27 October in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, and will continue until 31 October.